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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw my mother sacrifice her career for ten years when my sisters and I were little and she never regained her footing.  My dad left her and remarried a professional woman, younger woman, and my mom had nothing to call her own.  My sisters and I went away to college and left her.  Funny thing is - my mom was the parent with the very high IQ.

I get scared for my friends when they say they want to SAH.  My issues entirely, I know, but it’s a deep feeling of fear and dread for them.  [/quote]

Childhood experiences or trauma often drive decisions, so this isn’t surprising in your situation. Of course, many others had entirely different experiences that are driving their choices. [/quote]

NP - another personal experience driving it.  My mom stayed home while we were young, and got a second degree with the plan to "flip" roles with my dad when we hit middle school.  Then we had the shock of my dad passing leaving my mom with two young children the year she graduated.  Trying to enter a new career field with two young children as a new widow was too much for her so she took a few years off to raise us, then was never able to enter her new career field, and was left picking low paying jobs that offered good health insurance and flexibility to be able to parent us properly.

it was very engrained in my head, never give up your career, you don't know what the future holds.[/quote]

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