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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you get for bragging about being a woman of leisure is that people now know you are a woman of leisure.[/quote]
Oh lord. I likely would have said the same thing after my last little one went to school. There is nothing wrong with it. [/quote]

+1. The people saying it was an obnoxious post have obviously never spent time as a stay at home parent. It is exhausting and 24/7. Nothing wrong with being excited to get a little time to yourself back. [/quote]

I’m a SAHM of two. It IS exhausting and neither kid is in school yet. Occasionally I get my mom to take them both and I aimlessly shop at Target or HomeGoods OR if I can get my husband to do the drop off on his way to work then I stay home and sleep. Both options are glorious. I’m on FB all the time but NEVER would I make an obnoxious post bragging about my free time. At most I’d mention it directly to other SAHM friends at a later time who get how nice a middle of the day break is but it’s childish and silly to make a FB status about it. Clearly OP has learned this and left social media but I think she asked for it in this case and shouldn’t be petty to the neighbor. If neighbor dad lashed out on a non-bragging post (ex. if she posted something sentimental about sending her last little one off to school instead of bragging about lounging around and doing nothing and he still told her to go get a job) then I’d feel differently. [/quote]

GMAFB. Neither you, nor her neighbor, get to decide what is ok for her to post on FB. You don’t get to decide that someone else’s post is “childish”. Maybe she had no SAHM friends to vent to. Maybe she wasn’t lucky enough to have her mom local so she could occasionally go to Target alone. Maybe her DH couldn’t do drop off (exactly where is he dropping them off anyway, since you say you’re a SAHM?) ever and she almost never got a break. Maybe her last kid was an extra handful. Maybe she stresses out more easily than you. Maybe, maybe, maybe. People are different. Stop acting like you’re so perfect.[/quote]

Yes, poor her. Because of a comment made online months ago, she should definitely take the low road and refuse to help a fellow parent. With a detailed explanation why!

Because she definitely has some sort of reason or excuse. Her life is worse than PP's, than the neighbors', than mine. In the hard-done-by Olympics.[/quote]

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