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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother tried a few half-hearted jobs but never really had a career. I hated it and always wished she worked. She was outrageously suffocating and just a total drag on the family. It got to the point that when I was a teen my brother and I told our dad we'd support him if he wanted to divorce her.

She's like the perfect example of everything NOT to do as a SAHM.[/quote]

+1. My mom never worked. It was just because she was lazy, not because she cared about raising fine children. She now gets along with no one, takes everything as a personal insult. She's never been forced to get along with personalities as a result of work environment or anything of the sort. Also things like "having to go to an appointment" is a huge ordeal for her because she has to be somewhere at a certain time and it screws up her schedule of nothingness and tv shows. [/quote]

I worked for many years before I had kids but my kids have no memory of me working because I stopped working after they were born.  Does it matter that I ever worked if they never saw me working?

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Yes, that does matter. You worked outside the home in your lifetime which is not what the OP as asking.[/quote]

I guess my point is that, yes, while I did work before I had kids, my own kids have never and may never see me working.  Does it matter that I worked for years before they were born?  Or, because they have no memory of me going into the office and working long hours every day, does that mean that it doesn't "count" because they never saw it.  Does the fact that I have been a SAHM mean that my future DILs will have reason to look down their noses at me?

I think it's a legitimate question.[/quote]

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