A good argument for staying home

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-06-2007
A good argument for staying home
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Sat, 10-06-2007 - 1:58pm

Help.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 8:44am

I wasn't single, but I was there!

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 8:57am

If you want to sah you need to get your ducks in a row:


1) Make sure you have at least 6 months of your expenses saved in a fairly liguid asset to buoy you during hard times.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-18-2007
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 8:59am
Ack!

Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man-The Big Lebowski 

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 9:22am
I'm a WOHM who works because I really enjoy working, and because college and retirement will be so very expensive. It's insulting to think that I WOH to bring in income to "shop."

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 9:25am

"Working to just make extra money when you are handing your child off to someone else is because you are shirking your responsibility simply to have more money.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 9:26am
So I have to WOH in part to support you on welfare? No way.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 9:28am

"That's greed.

 

Yes. We. Did.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2000
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 9:55am

And not much time for any counseling to get done either.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 9:55am
Me too!

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2000
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 10:03am

No problem. I have been a sahm for the benefit of Erica. This is a difference between having to sah for the child and just wanting to sah to the point where it is affecting the stability of the marriage. In the case of the op, she has stated repeated her reasons for wanting to sah. And none of them so far has anything to do with her child but everything to do with her. She has implied that she and her dh are Christian (at least, she has stated that they go to church) but has not offered any Biblical reasons why her sah is moral to counter my statements that the Proverbs 31 woman was praised by her husband and children for her taking care of them, including financially. She is apparently unwilling to entertain any compromise on her line drawn in the sand.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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