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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP - I guess I’m a lucky one given that my husband has always supported whatever I’ve done and I’ve gone back and forth in terms of WAH and SAH. When my youngest was a HS junior I was thinking about going back to work full time and my husband said “that’s fine but will it make you happy?” So instead I took up silversmithing and that has made me happy. [/quote]

My husband is pretty much the same.  
We both want each other to be happy.  If he was miserable in his job and trying to cut back his hours or retire earlier, then I would take on more work to make that happen with the expectation that he pick up more slack around the house, and we both work a little harder to achieve this goal.

As it is, he likes being the guy at work that can come in at the last minute and save the day.  He wants to be flexible to stay late and not have to hand off work to someone else.  He’s happy for me to work or not work, but he wants me to be happy with whatever I am doing, and he is pretty clear that he isn’t really going to change whatever he’s doing or take on a bunch of additional tasks at home (although he is fine with them being hired out).

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