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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound really, really entitled and obnoxious. You have no right to demand someone else's labor this way. I'm honestly kind of shocked at the greed in this post.  Also, you don't seem to have a good grasp of the reality of being a sole wage earner.

Question: what if your DH decided unilaterally that he wanted to stop working forever? How fast would you divorce him?[/quote]

This!!![/quote]

It makes me so sad that we are to a point where a woman is greedy if she wants to stay home with children.  [b]100 years ago, a woman wasn’t allowed to work. [/b] Now she’s a terrible person if she wants to stay home.  How did we get to this?  [/quote]

That is flat-out not true.  Women have worked, including outside the home, for centuries.  Women worked as maids, weavers, cooks, governesses, teachers, nannies, nurses, factory workers, shop girls, prostitutes, laundresses, seamstresses, etc.  And women labored on farms and in home businesses forever.  The idea that a woman would just stay at home and not help the home generate income, but just take care of kids, has never been the norm.

And she's not a terrible person because she wants to stay home, but because she thinks she's entitled to have another adult pay her way whether he wants to or not, and assumes bad things about her husband without even talking to him about it.  [/quote]

Yeah, the OPs interpretation of the world with her as this bizarre imaginary victim is obnoxious, super entitled, and wildly ignorant of history to boot. [/quote]

You both are extremely harsh.  Wow.

Entitled?  I came on here saying I may not have another child so I can continue working.  How is that entitled?   I don’t view myself as a victim at all.  I simply want to live a nice life and having two kids and working as a lawyer sounds unpleasant.  I try to make good decisions in life and it doesn’t sound wise to have another child with the desire to stay home, when that could affect my marriage.  My marriage comes before children.

I apologize about not understanding history.  All I can say is that 100 years ago, there were likely zero husbands out there demanding that their wives have more kids and also be a lawyer.  Yes, I realize many women had jobs.  [/quote]

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