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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sole earner husband mostly works from home and is around and available as much as any working parent. The absentee-dad story is a myth that working moms tell. He will be retiring at 55.[/quote]

How can he be available if he is working? The work from home people are not working in fact. [/quote]

I said he is as available as any working parent. He’s done before dinner every night and doesn’t work weekends. He can flex during the day if needs to go to a performance or meeting for the kids, etc. He has all the flexibility the working moms brag about. He coaches and does bedtimes. He’s not remotely absentee. I know that’s disappointing for some posters who want him to be checked out.[/quote]

Right, as noted, that makes him a practically impossible rarity. There are very few wealthy (and non-wealthy) working fathers supporting entire families who can work from home, have total schedule control, and skip out on work whenever they want.

In any event, this thread started because OP is married to a terrible, disinterested, but wealthy father, which is far more common in the SAHM/wealthy WOHD model. So your unicorn situation is totally irrelevant.  [/quote]

I don't disagree about "total schedule control"...but others saying their BigLaw partner or other high-powered DH can't do X, Y or Z...well, that's usually a choice by DH, not schedule control.

Go to just about any HS sporting match at Sidwell and there are plenty of DHs that are BigLaw partners that make every single game.  Honestly, I think many fathers get more interested in their kids when they are older, and they enjoy sports.  Somehow they make the time for 3pm games, 3 days per week during the season.

Magically, they are "too busy" for the 3pm parent/teacher conference or the other stuff that isn't that interesting to them.

So, any partner that is secure in what they do actually has a ton of control over their schedule...they just choose not to deal with the boring stuff.[/quote]

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