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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 6 months pregnant with our first child. I want to tell my husband that I am seriously considering quitting my job for a while to SAHM. I'm nervous about his reaction. We met in college and he's always known me as a hard working, ambitious person. But lately I've felt myself changing and not caring about work and promotions like I used to. I'm curious about what you thought if your wife went through something similar. FWIW, I'm not going to say that money is "no" issue but it's less of an issue. DH out earns me by a lot and makes enough to maintain a nice lifestyle in this area (he makes around $650-750k).

We talked about it once in the past and he said he'd be fine with whatever but back then I used to scorn SAHMs and totally scoffed. So I'm also kind of eating crow here too.[/quote]
At that income I would be hard pressed to feel that money would be an issue. If so then there are other issues that might need to be addressed.

I will leave the rest to the ladies here who have been pregnant etc., I am a man and would never even tip toe into that mine field, lol, but I will share that I have been down this road as to the decision for my wife to be at home or continue working. After our first she took almost a year off but finances dictated that she needed to return to work for a time. After the birth of our second she briefly went back to work and once she left then she didn't go back to work until our last child was several years into elementary school and then it was part time. We didn't have a lot of money through those years but we managed and we both felt it was the best for us and our children.[/quote]

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