[Tired of Taxes]

>"I have met any number of young men who are whole in favor of their wife working."<

Same here. It's been that way since the 1980's, at least.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Back in the early nineties a young man asked me to marry him, I said yes and we began to plan our life together. He had a good career and so did I (by career I mean something you had trained for rather then a job). Our church requires pre-marital counseling so off we went.

We were so compatible, I wanted more children (4 but open to more) then he did (2 maybe) which should have been my first clue but I was in lo-ve. And still a bit dumb.

Things came to a screeching halt when he brought up "the cost of daycare". Daycare? For our precious bundles of joy? You mean, leave them for hours with stranger every day? How about No.

What followed was what my grandfather would have termed a "hellofarow".

There was no room for compromise, I was a "leach", a "drag", if I was not putting in a fifty hour week at an office. Raising kids was something that could be safely left to dumb people.

Relationship ended.