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[quote=Anonymous]I am A SAHM, not a DH like you were looking for, but my DH makes about $1M so my experience may be relavent to your situation. I was in my late 30's when I had our first, so I worked for many years before SAH. My DH works long hours and travels a lot, so my DH was in favor of my staying at home, although he would have been fine with a nanny if I wanted to keep working. One thing that helped us is that I kept a very part time connection to my previous field and picked up some contract work here and there. The money was pointless given our assets, but it made me (and DH, I think) feel like I had a way to ramp back on if we needed it. I still do a little contract work years later. We also ended up buying a bunch of rental properties and I manage those. Because it is so easy to leverage debt with a high income, we own many of those properties outright now and clear more a month above expenses than I ever made working full time. Don't assume that you will never work again, but realize that you might never work in an office again. Since most people don't know the details of our finances, I'm sure people see me as a SAHM with a little part time job. But, the rental income we make and the value of the real estate itself is a nice part of our net worth. We couldn't have bought that property without my DH's money, but he couldn't manage the logistics without me to make a profit. A flexible combination of our skills and resources allowed us to have our cake and eat it too. [/quote]

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