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Reply to "I'm the DW and primary breadwinner, and I hate it"
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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my parents were in a similar situation. Except that my dad had made a couple of failed attempts at self-employment in the intervening years--a restaurant, an artistic pursuit. I'm not sure what happened exactly but my mom was way more furious than you sound--my dad didn't have a real income for about twenty years, zero of which were while there were small children at home. (He basically worked up until we were all in school, changed careers, hated the new career, and became a stay-at-home dad to tweens and teens.) Finally, my dad got a seasonal, decent-paying job a year or two before my mom retired from her stressful career. He continued it working that job for about 6 years, retiring just this year. I swear, I think that job saved their marriage. It is so hard psychologically to feel like you are shouldering the whole burden of the family's finances, especially when your partner isn't contributing an equivalent amount of labor to the home.[/quote]
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