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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I’ve always felt like the majority of women who want to SAH hate their jobs or aren’t big earners.[/b] I know there are exceptions but that’s how it’s played out in my social circle. I am not at all judging— I think people who want to SAH and can should. [/quote]

This is it. LOL
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I think most women and men don’t love their jobs. They may not hate it but they don’t love it.[/quote]

Right. This is how my DH feels about his job, but he has no interest in staying home with the kids. I actually like my job more than he does, but I would stay home if it was financially possible.

I think the assumption that the ONLY reason someone might want to SAHM is to escape a job they hate really underestimates the pleasures of work in the home. I’m a working mom and that works for me, but some people on DCUM talk like being a SAHM is just mindless, unrewarding drudgery. That really doesn’t reflect the lives of any of the SAHMs I know. Just as some people like doing customer service and others hate it, or some people like working in isolated roles and others don’t, there are absolutely people who love the work of being a SAHM. When you deny this or assume these women simply have no other options, you are buying into some ideas about work that I think are pretty toxic.[/quote]

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