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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Generally, if you are in a position to be a SAHP, you should be in a position to put away money every month (you should have put away a lot more when you were DINKs). By the time you are 40s/50s, you shouldn't need a make-work busy job.

If you aren't as prepared for retirement, that is a different story.[/quote]

This is kind of the position I’m in. Everyone tells me to worry about my lack of earning potential and how I am in a financially precarious position. But how is that the case when I have a couple million dollars in diversified assets? (Marital but in my name) In the case of divorce I’m sure I’d get a job for the sake of the extra income even if it didn’t pay much, but right now if I were to get a job it would just be a hobby that disrupted family life. Neither I nor my husband wants that.

And yeah bad things could happen in a divorce or afterward but bad things can always happen, divorce or no. [/quote]

I agree with much of what you wrote, but a couple of million dollars in diversified assets really isn’t a lot. Would you expect that to sustain you for decades without working? How would you cover your health insurance? [/quote]

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