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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't need to be a law partner or live in exburbia to budget for one salary. NP here. We bought a house in a sought-after zip code and kept the mortgage to one-salary levels. Fwiw at the time my husband was making $75k per year and we both had (and still have) student loans to pay off. We did this by buying a house that was old and needed lots of work and had other downsides. We lived with the smallest lousiest kitchen for a decade, and our house is still way smaller and less fancy than most of our colleagues and friends.

The trade-off is that I was able to stay home with my first child for a year, and could have stayed home indefinitely if that year hadn't been more than enough time to convince that we would all be better off if I went back to work. I'm glad I did it, I'm glad I had the option, but for the same reasons that the PP described and the OP worries about for his wife, I'm really glad that I went back to work. The problem with never having the option is that you tend to glorify life as a SAHM. It isn't all that, not by a long shot! I now look happily upon on all the Bethesda yoga-pants moms in my neighborhood - they seem perfectly happy but it was definitely not for me.[/quote]

I was a WM for years (director and VP level)- I had a break and SAHM - I want to go back to work but when you say that works for you to got back to work- how do you handle child care?  My kids are both in ES and not old enough to be on their own.  Besides SACC (not an option now that both kids could do it!) - what else can you do?
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