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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, are you married? Did your partner work full time out of the house? What childcare did you use for your kids, and can you quickly check if it's still open? Relevant to the discussion.

FWIW, I'm 45 and have WFH (hybrid) since my early 30s: a lot of our generation actually did use WFH to make our childcare work. Mostly not the dudes, though. [/quote]

As a family we decided to raise our kids with my wife staying at home until the youngest was 13 then she joined the work force with me. We are a very traditional household where in the husband provides and the wife nurtures. We are a team just as the QB does not try to block  a DE...we stay in our lanes and do what we do best. Wife cooks cleans, I cut fire wood, fix appliances, cut grass, we both share with the kids.

The point I was trying to make earlier is not that I am magical, its that my co-workers right now think they are entitled to live a lifestyle of luxury and its someone else's problem that they need day care, or mortgage rates are high, or housing costs are high, yeah no crap dum dum...I got to buy a house in 2007 at 350K watch its value go down to 150K get trapped in a mortgage, raising 2 kids, and be the only income feeling as if I was stuck....but I worked hard and somehow both myself and family survived and now I hear people younger than me cry about how hard it is to buy a house, and how lucky I am....no I put in hard work for 17 years and now I am in a better position to handle the challenges of 2025, because of the hard work I did for the last 17.

Here is an idea, go get some friends and rent a 4 BR apt for $3,000 and boom you now have a rent of 750...figure it out, stop crying life is hard and expensive....its hard and expensive for everyone...get a clue

and yeah I was trying to stir some stuff up...but that's what message boards are for...I may have mis spoke and my co-workers I am talking about may be GEN Z...21-28 yo whatever they are  :lol: [/quote]

This is going to blow your mind. Women want the same things you want. They want a paycheck and a retirement account. That’s great your wife stayed home but many women don’t want to do that just like you likely would not have.

This is ignoring many men aren’t supportive of a woman staying home and won’t support her.  Then there are divorces.

This means women are forced to work and to make it work, they need flexibility and their spouse does too for dual income families.

It seems you might be a little jealous that there are couples where both spouses work since they benefit tremendously from this.

Your wife being able to reenter the workforce after 13 years is unusual. 
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