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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just move further out and have your wife go part time.  Your wife might not be thrilled with an absentee partner and the sahm life anyway.  Daycare is temporary.  [/quote]

Sorry, she is not interested in that arrangement, she feels we will have to sacrifice on too many fronts.  So she instead sticks with a job I see is killing her every day, and I don't know what to do.

We both grew up not very well off, nothing terrible but both of dads never worked after 35, and not because they retired!  We worked hard, got good degrees in technical fields, but seemed to have lost our path to the "norm" middle class life of corporate salaries.  I think our network game is off, since our family and child hood friends are actually far worse off then us, and our "friends" network is limited to college where we spent most of our times in the lab and library not really making close friends we can call upon later for jobs.  Our careers have been gov related since graduation, so no real linkage to the corporate world where the "norm" professional salaries exist.[/quote]

You have obligations to your kids as a dad not just to her.  You could go big tech and barely see your kids.  Is she actually asking you to work more and make more money or are you just assuming that she wants that.  Many women I know with adv degrees (myself included) do not love the sah life of constantly cleaning peanut butter off of chairs.  Plus your stress of being sole breadwinner soars through the roof.  Don’t assume she will be happier in that setup and if she wants it and is not willing to downsize further out than you need to realize she might never be happy no matter what you do.  [/quote]

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