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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you wake up one morning and tell him “You’re an amazing person. I love you. But I’m just not in love with you, I want a divorce,” and he’s the sole breadwinner, our divorce laws will financially reward you for that. For some reason, a non-working spouse is entitled to “more” than the working spouse.

I didn’t make the rules. [/quote]

Of course they are. My wife quit work  to be a stay at home mom. Me sitting in the office having a cup of coffee is hardly 1/10 the work of [b]watching three young kids by yourself, cleaning your own house, cooking all the meals, being home for every handiman and repair[/b], mailing out the holiday cards, handling all the birthday parties, thanksgiving, xmas etc.

And by the time you are done what job are you getting?      [/quote]

Meh. There’s a market price for all of this domestic work, and it’s far less than most professionals make. [/quote]

But they’re not mommy!  [/quote]

Well sure. They’re not Daddy either. But that wasn’t the point being discussed.

There’s also a tremendous life value that a stay at home parent receives that a working parent — especially a sole breadwinner — misses out on. Funny how the value of that experience of being able to stay home with your children when they are young is never accounted for in the “who gets what” divorce greed game. [/quote]

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