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[quote=Anonymous]I love my career and while being a mom is awesome (I have two girls), my career has fulfilled me in completely different ways that I could not have as a SAHM. Note I'm saying this is MY perspective on MY life - not saying all SAHMS are not fulfilled in the same way. So please no one grabbing my post and trashing me for being anti-SAHM. I am not. It's not for me.

My mom stayed home and enjoyed some parts of it, but did go back to teaching after we were grown (she worked part time at the school when I started elementary school and then ramped back up to FT when I left for college). It was easy for her to go back to teaching and she didn't do it for the money, but I don't think it would be easy for me to pick up my career after a long time off.

I enjoy what I do and like a PP said, enjoy external motivation. I also think it is a nice buffer to have extra income and 2 people in the workforce, though my husband makes more than me. We both have good flexibility and neither of us works long hours so I've never felt particularly pulled in 2 directions, though I realize many working parents are.

I grew up in a pretty wealthy community, smaller town than DC area, where most women stayed home and a lot of my mom's friends are not doing well after divorce or the death of their husbands. I can think of at least 10 who are either working retail and don't want to be, or forced to get a roommate they don't want, etc. I think it hard to predict what the economy will do and many of the men who had a lot of earning potential and made great investments in the 80s and 90s are not doing nearly as well now. [/quote]

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