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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the right woman, not that much.

If you meet the right woman and you both work your asses off and save for a couple of years, she can stay home or you can stay home while the kids are young.

In the greater scheme of things, marrying the right person is more important than having a stay at home parent.

My DH does not make enough for me to stay home indefinitely, but I have never met any other guy I would rather be with. And I would not want him working longer hours either so I could stay home. We are cheap and we get by now. I'll be back to work soon. We are very happy, and we would be very happy even if I went back to work 6 weeks after the birth of each of our children.

Staying at home is one of those things that works in a marriage that already works. It enhances a good marriage, but it does not create one.[/quote]

I'm a great spouse. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would want to SAH. I married for love, not money. We saved our asses off before kids, but that only allowed us to buy a nice house in a good school district. DH makes 100k and it's not enough to allow either of us to SAH. We really struggle with making our lives function.

I just feel caught between a rock and a hard place. No flexibility for dh and I and we also don't make enough for one of us to SAH. Some days I wish I had married for money like a lot of my friends did. [/quote]

Same here.  We had no interest in having a SAHP until we were in the thick of it. Alternatively, if we both had part time jobs that would work fine.  But good luck findign that![/quote]

Two part time jobs don't provide upward mobility or usually health insurance.[/quote]

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