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[quote=Anonymous]Answer to your question, I don't have any guilt. I always knew I would stay home to raise kids because I did not want some paid stranger doing my job.

My husband agreed and in the early days he worked two jobs. One 8 to 5, one 6 to 10. As far as I know, he never resented me for doing my job. Which BTW was 24/7, 365 days a year. 3 kids. Never ending things needing to be done. When I finally burned out, my husband understood. He did anything he could to help. But being a man, his help sometimes made my job harder. He mostly took the kids to do things on the weekend. My me time consisted of cooking big batches of food and snacks, doing laundry, ironing... In case you need to know we were not well off so outsourcing, the word alone makes me laugh, did not even enter my mind.

He did have outside of the home hobbies one of which included a boat and a hunting rifle.

I was never a feminist nor did I try to make him feel guilty about not being there because quite frankly, I was grateful to have a choice. A choice not many have. I never whined about my chosen life either. The only time I felt guilty was when I got sick.

Some of you are downright lazy, entitled and disrespectful to your man. I wasn't like that. Could be why I had a very good husband.[/quote]

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