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[quote=Anonymous]My MIL constantly hints that I should stay home with our 3 kids (8/6/4). She stayed home until her youngest of 4 was about 10. She also started having kids at 20, so… not exactly the same. The career she built afterwards as a nurse manager is actually really impressive, so in some sense she had it all. But she had her kids in an area with an extremely low cost of living and her DH had a job that met their financial needs (farm inherited from family). DH and I live in DC and both make about maxed out GS-15 money (he makes $20K more than me), so the idea that I could just stay home with the kids is crazy… and the assumption that if one of us did it would definitely be me drives me batty. My MIL is otherwise very nice, but this is a huge source of friction.[/quote]
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