Help! Husband pushing me to find job!
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Help! Husband pushing me to find job!
| Tue, 11-07-2006 - 10:35am |
My husband has just taken a leave of absense from his high paying 80 hour a week job to focus on being home more and finding out what he really wants to do. He is now working 3 days a week at a job he really likes. He always said if he took this job he would find another part time job to supplement the income. I am working weekends and babysitting during the week, but my income is a joke. Our kids are 5 and 3 and cry every weekend when I leave. My problem is this: my husband has put no effort in finding that 2nd job he said he would find and is pushing me to work full time. I want to be a stay at home mom, but it may mean him going back to a job he hates. He says the kids will adjust, get over it. Am I being selfish or lazy for wanting to stay home? Is he being selfish for leaving a good paying job?

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~Ghostwriter, M.A.
Where do you get your numbers?
Do you really think you are in a good position to guess what the expenses are for the family of four with a household income of $30K?
That's less than $100 per month for all that stuff, assuming you don't run over in the main categories.
Pretty tight squeeze isn't it?
it's not any different than calling sah a piece of cake. i don't consider that offensive,at all. how can you not see that? i think woh would be selfish for my family and it would be irresponsible to consider a second income worth it because it's just not. none of what i just said is a reflection on you and why you woh,though. is it worthy of debate? sure it is. but debating and going to the extreme of selective favortism because of where someone's beliefs come from or who maybe spouting them is what happens on this board.
and about phoenix and mkatherine - no,i didn't read the "it's unfortunate THAT YOU...." to mkatherine. i do think that's wrong if that's the way it was spelled out. the inflamatory comments i read were the attacks and belittle of the nature of where her beliefs come from.....but what if phoenix would have shared it in the sense that i follow beliefs that consider homosexuality a sin. i don't know that she would have gotten any more of a pass. and that's simply because religion is the basis for her comment.
You are so right.
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