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[quote=Anonymous]New poster here: 
- DH does about 40% of the household stuff. Laundry, grocery, most cooking. 
- We have always made about equal salaries. Both currently over seven figures. Who wants to give that up? 
- We both work from home. 
- Only one kid. I mean, the kid stuff (driving too from the bus every day, some homework, a few extracurriculars) takes maybe 5 hours a week. Who needs to stay home for that? What are you doing all day? 
- I love my job. I'm on a short list of probably 15 experts in a very hot field that's also socially important. People pay me $1600/hr for my expertise. I'm the most important person on every call I'm on.  That feels great! The stuff I'm working on changes every hour. 
- My kid is super proud of me. I've asked if he wishes I were around even more like Larlo's parent who comes for lunch 3 days a week (in 6th grade!!) and he's like, no way, you have the best of all worlds. He also loves telling people what I do.  
- DH loves that I have a highly respected intellectual job. I think he really gets off on it.  We always talk about our work. He would be super bored with a SAH wife, and has said as much. Sometimes I actually worry a little what happens when we retire! 
- Staying at home is very unfulfilling for me. Sometimes I'll have a couple quiet days of work and I can feel the doldrums slipping in just that quickly. I need to be doing something, and not just spending money on pilates and PTO projects. 
- DH and I are both looking forward to a well funded retirement when we've decided we've exhausted this phase of our lives. That will be around age 50 for me, 54 for DH. I have never understood marriages where women are okay not working for decades, while by necessity, their DHs have to keep working until age 67. How is this a partnership? Don't you want to contribute so you can both eventually retire?

Why would I quit??[/quote]

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