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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can I force this issue or am I in the wrong? I am sole breadwinner, make about 500k so money isn't an issue but wife wants our 2 kids to go to private school for middle and high school. The school is about 30k per year. That's about $700k I'm pre tax money and not counting college.

I went to public school my whole life, including a good state school so my tuition from kindergarten through end of grad school was about the cost of one year of this middle school, combined.  I think private school is a waste, unless you are in a bad school district or your kid has unique needs.

Leaving aside I could retire several years earlier if we sent the kids to the good, local public school, I feel my wife has lost the sense of what a dollar is. She isn't a spendthrift on other areas. I feel like if this is so important, then she can work with basically every penny she earns going to pay tuition.

How do I raise this without blowing things up?[/quote] If she goes back to work are you prepared to be the default parent for the next few years as she builds up her career and has very little vacation time to take? That means being home to do the after school and dinner duties.  She gets to the be the one who drops off if necessary.  It means grocery shopping and cooking.  If means figuring out how the house gets clean and how the lawn gets mowed.   It means scheduling and going to the doctors appointments. It means staying home when they are sick…[/quote]

Give me a freaking break.

This post is ridiculous. Newsflash most women work

So many women on this forum just want to be taken care of and don’t want to work while calling all the shots.

Op you make the money so you have the final say.[/quote]

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