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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s my experience. When dating, I had no plans to SAHM. My husband to be knew I didn’t want to SAHM and even with that he explicitly told me, a lawyer, that he would never want me to be a SAHM. He’s a physician and he said that SAHMs had poor mental health issues and he would want me to be have a job, any job, when we had kids even if it was something low earning. Fast forward to us having our first child and my husband realizes how utterly exhausting it is to have two working parents who both had to pull the weight when it came to the baby and without any prompting he told me that he would support me staying at home if I wanted to. I told him that I didn’t want to SAHM. He brought it up a few times more and let it rest. Apparently my mental health was no longer such a priority when he had to share the getting up in the middle of the night responsibilities.

So, take it for what it is. Many men who espouse they don’t ever want a SAHM has no idea how hard raising a family can be. Especially if they have a wife who will expect equitable contribution to the hands on child raising part.

Good luck to you! [/quote]
Yep. Men want to “support you” in having a fluff job and still doing 99% of the caregiving and housekeeping and emotional labor. Just make sure any man goes in eyes wide open that he will be doing 50% of everything, no matter how much money he makes or how much money you make. [/quote]

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