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[quote=Anonymous]I didn’t read all million pages of SAHM and WM sniping at each other so I don’t know if OP ever came back or just dropped a bomb and left. But, OP, you need to be realistic about how much your wife could make even working FT. Can she turn her PT job into FT? That would likely double her salary to $36k - we’ll round it up to 40k to be generous. That’s best case scenario, but a lot of PT jobs are just part time and don’t really offer a full time option or the employer doesn’t want to convert the position to FT. So then she’s on the job market and it’s rough out there for age 50+ job seekers. That will take time, and it’s likely that she’ll be at that $40-$45k level for awhile. And starting over at a new job, she’ll have no PTO to take time off for vacations, kids college visits/move-in day, stuff like that that comes up even with older kids. Perhaps by her mid-60s, she’ll have worked her way up to $75k? I’m not saying it’s not worth it, maybe it is, but her working FT isn’t going to instantly bring in a load of income.

I don’t know why exactly you’re so resentful but it sounds like you both need marriage counseling. [/quote]

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