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[quote=Anonymous]OP - i'm with you.  I am an attorney who got sick after my son was born and shifted to a very low key role.  Then back to work in a firm part time, and i'm about to quit my job again because i have a kid with special needs that just aren't compatible with my working.  Even with my part time job, the special needs stuff by no means fills an average day, nor does any of the "house management" stuff.  But i can't keep working because right now we have at least one specialist appointment every couple weeks, so i've just been unreliable at work that it's not fair to my employer.  I feel incredibly guilty with all my down time, and guilty that my DH continues to work.  Now that i've been on both sides of the coin (working and nonworking with kids), i look back on my sahm mother and am astounded at how little "work" (childrearing or otherwise) she has had to do since around 1983 (when i started at K).  My dad is still working at 75 (because he likes it), and i asked him how he feels about the fact that my mom never did much, and he was okay with it and hadn't really thought about it.  Different generation, i guess.  My DH and I discussed and agreed that if we were on either side of that partnership, we'd have trouble sleeping at night.  So yeah, i get where OP is coming from.  [/quote]

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