Kids as an "excuse" to stay home
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| Fri, 08-15-2008 - 2:16pm |
No one would likely ever admit to this...but what percentage of women who stay at home, and have no plans to ever return to the work force, or to do more than work PT...stay home because of the kids, but also for the major fact that they simply don't want to work?
I don't love my job every second, and there's definitely jobs out there that I don't think I could get out of bed for every day. But the idea of never working again, and being completely dependent on my spouse...kind of blows my mind. I realize not everyone's of the same ilk, and one's not better than the other.
I do wonder how many of the women who go on and on about how great it is to be home with the kids, are primarily just relieved to not have to punch the clock every day in addition to being mom.

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Many, many people over the years have said that their standard of living requires more of an income than yours requires.
I don't even know how to address the questions, personally. I don't know how much income your standard of living requires, therefore how can I address the question?
I know how much income we have. I know what we do with our income. But I don't know about the "requires." If we didn't have as much income as we do, we would cut back. At this point in our lives, much of the cutting back we might do first would be barely discernable to us, but might make a huge difference to other people and different community organizations.
Exactly, the sol we have chosen has very little to do with the material things that have been
PumpkinAngel
Perhaps a better choice of words is in order?
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It was my best guess.
PumpkinAngel
Yes, agreed and same for us.
PumpkinAngel
"pka's sol does require two incomes. "
How so? There is no SOL that requires two incomes- merely sufficient income. It could come from one or two or three or more.
<< it doesn't take more to make me happy.>>
I'm not seeing that, with all the talk of material goods and choosing to work, clearly it does take more.
i'm not sure what it is you aren't seeing.
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