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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Why is my husband an “impossible rarity” when working moms claim this type of schedule all the time and go completely unquestioned on this site?[/quote]

Oh my. Are you really this slow? Because all those working moms are not the sole provider, and therefore can and do take jobs that are more flexible. What is a rarity is a man, with a super flexible job, who makes enough money that his wife’s salary is irrelevant. That is a true rarity, and therefore your DH is irrelevant. [/quote]

Nah. We just aren’t frivolous money wasters like so many on here. [/quote]

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