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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have a household income of $270k per year and you're on a "super tight budget?" Also, even without a wife and kids, I don't know how you can hold down a $150k/year job, go to grad school, and still have a block of time where you can spend half a day drinking each week. [/quote]

Haha massive student loans for both of us, a recent mortgage ( not a great deal)  and school costs for kids. [/quote]

(So what is the expected return on investment for the grad school? Going 90k in debt for maybe a 10-20k raise for your husband might end up being a wash.)

I think your legitimate beef is that he gets "grown up on his own time" before you both get "grown up couple time" or you get "grown up on your own time." I mean, hell, even if he just unilaterally went out from 3pm to 10pm every Tuesday reading the newspaper at Starbucks, it'd be the same dynamic.

He probably paints it as "necessary bonding and studying time, almost like work," and there may be some truth to it, but it IS a huge chunk of time where he gets to be kid-free and you're stuck as being the default babysitter (and I suspect he'd complain if you tried to hire a sitter for the nights he is out being Mr. Grad Student about Town.) [/quote]

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