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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the wife to a hopeful future biglaw partner, I have become fearful that I am never going to have the professional career I thought I would.  I am highly educated and worked hard for it, but DH's career is so demanding I do not feel I can work more than PT and still spend as much time with the kids and home as I want to and we need.  I guess it's a good problem to have, but I still mourn the likely loss of the career I imagined when we first got married to the greater certainty of DHs high pay and long hours.  Maybe when the kids are school age more options will open up, but I worry I will have timed out of some opportunities.  [/quote]

People make it work.  You can if you really have drive.  My DH is a biglaw partner.  I WOH full time and the kids are fine.  No need to be overly dramatic.[/quote]

This is 10:09.  I WOH full-time but that is not the same thing as having the career I might have if I was willing/able to devote as much time to it as DH does to being a partner at a law firm. Just working full-time does not mean that you are living up to all the potential you saw in yourself when you were younger.  I only know of one family with kids made up of two full-time high achieving biglaw partners.  They do make it work, but basically do it by outsourcing everything and never sleeping.  Most of us scale back even if we stay full-time at our jobs.  [/quote]

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