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[quote=Anonymous]My husband was unemployed for a few months when our daughter was in 3rd grade. We had a nest egg so I wasn't too stressed about money- just sad for him because of his career setback. But I figured heck, let's see how the other half lives and enjoy my life as a woman with a stay at home spouse.

I hated it. There were days when he had six full hours will DD was at school and I'd come home to breakfast dishes still in the sink and a guy saying "what should we do about dinner, honey?"

I came to understand why some couples fight over stupid crap like dishes.  I also resented the living crap out Of him.

It's one thing to come home exhausted and share home responsibilities with another exhausted person. There's an esprit de corps there.

It's quite another to come home to someone who's had no commute, no time taken to dress up, six unstructured hours to get shit done, and have to jump in and share tasks equally (not quite equally, because he still did the helpless dad doesn't know how to do it as well as you thing). I bit my tongue the whole time because it sucked for him to lose his job and he was really hurting, but I was tense AF and irritated.

He felt like crap about work.

The up side was having someone home after school. After that was all over I found a flexible job so I could do that. Best of both worlds.

I'm so glad it's over. [/quote]

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