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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re asking specifically about relationships, so maybe this comment is irrelevant, but I think some of the other trade-offs of a “big” career + family are wrongly ignored.  Things like sleep, exercise, stress management.  Some people can handle more stress than others, absolutely, but SO many high-powered people and women especially run themselves ragged, at times to the point of illness.

Ultimately, you have to prioritize relationships.  You can’t work long hours and spend sufficient time with kids AND spouse AND friends AND other family, not typically.  But people have different needs on those fronts, too - it comes down to what you value.[/quote]porches.

This!  All the "high power" women I know have crap relationships with their kids are are disgustingly fat/out of shape, sometimes both.  Prioritize what is important to you.  For me I like my medium power career, wonderful meaningful relationships, and enjoy great health.  I'm probably a nobody to most people though.

And for men this is the same. It's just that society doesn't punish them for sacrificing their relationships with their kids the way women are stigmatized.  And society doesn't seem to care if the men are fat and orange, like Trump, but geez if he were a woman of that obesity...[/quote]

Feel free to tell yourself that, but it's just not true.  I'm close to my kids (21 and 23), have a great career, am a runner and I volunteer with two organizations I care about. I'm even still married to my first husband lol ;-)  I am not the only woman with a decently high powered career who's not fat and estranged from her family and friends and society at large.[/quote]

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