Read all the replies on this thread and count the "I"s. There was sufficient truth in what I posted, and the thread provides some proof of that.
If you read some sort of a comparison criticism into my brief comments, you put it in there yourself.
"I thought it was best to fore go my career and stay home and raise my children"
I don't see where that is selfish statement, While if they said something like
"Staying home to raise my children would have been best but I latched keyed my kids because I had to work because I wanted to buy a Lexus like everyone else in the neighborhood."
Most definitely would be