Posted on 01/17/2025 5:26:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
e says her husband’s well-paying job has come at an incredibly sad cost — her own career. “My husband earns well, not loads, but realistically it’s always going to be more than me. It naturally means my career has had to take a back seat while I’m at home with the kids,” she explained.
“But we’ve got no additional support, and someone does need to do the child-related things. This lands on me.” Currently, the mother works part-time, but she isn’t satisfied. “Sometimes I wish I had the luxury of working more,” she said. “I miss my job and independence.” Taking to a moms’ forum, she sought closure. However, responses were divided.
“Could I insist he quit his job? I’m not sure I could. A reluctant and resentful stay-at-home dad or part-time one? Hardly a good idea,” she said. The family can’t afford a nanny, they can’t move to find better childcare options, and the mother can’t work from home.
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” It naturally means my career has had to take a back seat while I’m at home with the kids,” she explained.”
TORTURE. That’s how the Leftists see it. And if these attitudes do not change, and SOON, there will be Western Civilization left.
I’ve generally earned more than my wife but there was a time (i’m a software engr she has an MBA) when i earned less and it was around the time of the birth of our 2 children. I was so glad to share the time of raising our children. I can’t imagine regretting any of the time i spent with my children growing up in exchange for some ‘career advancement.’
Sounds to me like they shouldn’t have had kids.
Written by Buttplug?
My experience as a never married older man is that grandmothers love grandchildren.
Why, that poor thing!! She does realize, I HOPE - that there are people in this country with REAL PROBLEMS??
“”Work or stay at home and take care of my children?”” Whatever shall I do?
We had a part time nanny on occasion which were local legal USA born college students for whom I filed proper taxes.
Jack Welch was as critical as anyone to Ge while he was CEO, but still, the second he walked out the door, he didn't matter any more.
I’m not sure she’s be any happier if she had the “luxury” of working full time.
Until children start the process of separation, a woman should not work if it can be helped. After the kids start separating themselves should she start working if she wishes.
This woman’s life expectancy is probably 80 or more years. If she takes 20 years off to raise kids, she still has decades afterwards to pursue her own interests.
Women really can have it all. They just cannot have it all at once.
What a stupid woman!
‘ Her job is to be a mother and a homemaker. That is the calling God gave her.’
You Muslim?
rich man bad. poor man bad. all men bad.
Not at all. I have no regrets about being Dad to my children. It is my primary earthly mission.
She can raise her own children and make a home that has a real family life because her husband is busting his hump and producing for his family. No, much better to complain on a female griping forum to solicit support for her ungrateful attitude, act out on it, and maybe set her husband up to find a second wife who has her head screwed on straight. The new Western Civ baffles me.
I’ve never known a woman who was :-)
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