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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First of all, why is it obvious that our income is higher? I don't get why you keep saying stuff like that. And who says I don't "need" to follow a budget? For all you know, I am a financial wreck and not keeping a budget doesn't have anything to do with how much money there is.
Did you see the part about how I grew up in a household earning a modest income? My dad was in the military and my mother SAH. I learned all the tricks of how to make a dollar go farther, from adding dry milk to the milk jug to washing sandwich baggies out after each use. My mother canned tomatoes from her mother's garden in Minnesota and hauled them back to California after every summer. I wasn't allowed a pair of brand name jeans until I was 12 years old and it was a special treat from my mother because I hounded her. From what I gather from your childhood, you probably couldn't relate. Just because we enjoy a higher standard of living now does not erase all those years of living on a modest income.
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"Besides this we have our living prophet, for whom I am grateful, and I hope to follow after him all the days of my life.&
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"From what I gather from your childhood, you probably couldn't relate."
Not correct.
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We do have one, not terribly convenient but we do have one.
PumpkinAngel
If you do not know the answer to that then i hope you find it.
"I forgot I am not a Christian"
You stated this no one else did.
I do not view a mormon as a christian. I see them as mormons. Many of the things mormon's practice believe in and follow, go agianst my religious beliefs, and my personal relationship with GOd. I do however, respect their choice and the path they follow, even though it goes agianst my beliefs.
Uh, now?? There are dozens of students in my masters program who have gone straight on for an MAT because they can't find teaching jobs. They're hoping the baby boomers start retiring soon and make some openings.
And luck has nothing to do with being able to do that. Right.
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