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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, 
Maybe change the title of your thread.  Do you need to make peace with your SAHM status? I feel that is the only thing that is going good for you.

Imagine that you got a job today. How hard that would be with your current situation? An associate degree, 2 small kids, one IEP, no car, no friends,  living in a condo, house search, depression, DH doing his PhD, no childcare, no outsourcing?

The only thing that is a blessing for you right now is that you are a SAHM.   I suggest that there is no need to make peace with being a SAHM. You should devote your energy in changing your social situation and outsourcing things. [/quote]

Before someone jumps up and says that she should get a job and become a WOHM - understand that she is trained as a nanny and  does not want to do childcare anymore. She will also not make enough to send her kids to childcare. She is not enjoying being a full time caregiver to her own children.  Being a nanny is a low paying job and her situation will not improve by being a nanny.

I also agree with the education disparity someone mentioned before between someone who is doing phd and a woman with an associate degree in childcare.

So the only thing that I can think that will work for her is to make some friends by providing a service (mommy and me classes)  in the park. Make friends and probably get someone to come and clean her condo once in a while.   Being a WOHM is not going to make her life any better. She will be a low paid WOHM and that is even more stressful.

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