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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel balanced. I work 8-4:30. I have a 7 minute commute and then I'm home with my toddler and infant (we vary pick up and drop off, but the daycare is near our home too). I make 100k and am a fed. DH has similar hours and gets home by 5:30pm every night and makes 110k. The money is enough to live in a nice house in a suburb of VA that we both work in. The kids go to a daycare they adore and our parents live down the street and babysit every weekend.

Sure I miss living/working downtown, but we couldn't have made that work with kids. I also wish we made more money, but we have everything we want. Sure I would have loved maternity leave or the ability to take a few years off when I had kids, but that's life. I'm currently 9 mo pregnant with #3 and will have approximately 2 weeks out of my 12 weeks paid.

I think I have a very even work life balance. [/quote]

I have something similar except we make a little more and are not feds. My commute is about a mile since we bought close to my office and we have grandparents who pitch in a lot for work trips etc. So my life is generally balanced over the course of the year and with help. But my grandparents did the same for me so it’s a family cultural thing and no one feels burdened or obligated. My mom specifically said shat she will help more if that would make the difference between us having one child or more. [/quote]

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