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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Huh. Both my spouse and I value our family over our careers. We are both home for dinner every night. Yet our HHI is over 300K. Yes, you can have a happy family and financial security.[/quote]

That's not what the thread's about.  (You're the first one to bring up HHI.)  
We're in the same boat, and that's terrific.  For folks so fortunate, we shouldn't be heard to complain.

But OP's Q wasn't help me feel OK about my income, it was help me feel OK about being passed by at work while others get the promotions and I settle into a dull middle-level job.

It's the choice we made for our families, and we have to remember to feel good about it at every dinner time, every doctor appointment, every game of catch in the backyard.  It's worth it.

Even if people who used to vie for my time and talent at work now look right through me as if I never existed.

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Once you have kids, your career ambitions take a back seat.  Otherwise, why have them?  I've been a WOHM other than maternity leaves the entire time I've been a mom, but I do feel this way. Who cares about prestige? Really.[/quote]

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