Thanks for the input.
The reason I am so interested is that my daughter, who is married to a farmer, is a stay-at-home mom. The kids (ages 14,12,9) have been home-schooled for a few years, and just entered school this month (a small Christian school).
She is busy with the farm, grows a large garden, cooks and bakes everything from scratch, landscapes a large property, etc. She feels like she should be doing something to bring in extra money. Her husband farmer wants her to enjoy what she’s doing, and let him take care of the family income. He loves that she’s home (if that’s what she wants) and enjoys the good care the family gets....including the gourmet food lol.
I have always told her that the roles are perfect - he’s doing what he loves, as is she. For some reason, she feels like she should be helping with the income (they’re doing ok financially), but she always gets very stressed when she does. She opened a summer market and grew a massive amount of veggies, flowers, etc. She did very well at it and had many customers, but she was always anxious and it ruined it for her.
So if she’s quite happy supporting the family in her role, and he’s quite happy with her doing that, I wondered if there was a necessity to bring in extra income.
Sorry for rambling....just wanted to explain my interest.
I like the quote about the unheard conversations. Excellent.
She sounds quite driven! I could use some of that, sitting here looking through dirty windows.