Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
| Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm |
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.
Kat

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Susan
I don't volunteer a great deal of time to school & church together. I can easily keep myself busy with other things in life.
I pursue things that interest me. I get involved in reading. You can take a cake decorating class (if that is what one desires, I did). You can spend time putting personal touches on your home (outside of the cleaning). You can cook (which I could spend all my days doing I love it so much). Get together with friends. Lunch. Go to the salon for the day. Get involved in a bible study group that meets weekly. Spending time with my parents and my granny. Spending time travelling. Having a vacation home to spend time there. Take a class in photography & pursue it by travelling to take pictures. Write a novel or short stories. Shopping (if one considers that an interest). Taking a drive (not talking a short one, I love to drive an hour or two just for the scenic view & photography opportunities). Being here when my husband runs home in the middle of the day, having the free time to just drop by his office & visit. Taking a cooking class or a class on floral arranging. Working on crafty items in the quiet of my home. Flying up to Chicago or to New York for a broadway show or to do some shopping. Going out to LA just to view the scenes and be a tourist. Go up to San Franscico, Seattle, Dallas. I travel a lot now, with my kids along. I'd even travel more if I didn't have children. Taking in a matinee or curling up in front of the television to get engrossed in a movie or something else of interest.
These are just the things off the top of my head. Not near *everything*, that would be a too longer post!
I love this and yes, the flowers!
No, I WAH and I contribute financially to our household.
Sure. I can only think of how it was when *I* worked.
I could only be in a partnership style marriage like you & garden are chatting about. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a marriage in my eyes or those of my dh's.
We have a give & take, supportive relationship.
Susan
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