Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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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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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:45pm
Sometimes I think the green monster attacks those with *some* money a lot more than us poor people! >>I tell ya--life is so hard for some people...<< Gee... I don't remember anyone complaining about said life, nor did I read the part in the life instructions that said it was supposed to be hard. Personally, in our family, we do our best to make life easy. I don't see why she shouldn't have that help.



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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:47pm
Well, of course, it has its moments. But he loves it and thankfully those moments are few and far between as far as he is concerned. He enjoys and looks forward to going to work (as far as the work itself) goes. He is in hotel mgt (that is how we met).

The OP made it sound like a husband of a sahw/m has to go off for the "drudgery of work". My dh really loves his work. He'd be doing the same thing had I continued to work.

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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:48pm
No they don't. But apparently you think so.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:49pm
Using all that water is what's wasteful. Cleanliness has nothing to do with it. One can be perfectly clean without wasting all that water.
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:49pm
Yes
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:50pm
Not IMHO.
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Registered: 07-21-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:50pm
A hot lunch? Does he come home for lunch or do you pack him a Thermos?

See, I think this is why I truly could never be a lifer SAH. I could never bring myself to wake up and scramble those eggs and pack my husband a lunch. I guess the fact that he goes out to lunch is beside the point, but I think if it came down to that, I'd have to just buy a minivan, fabric softener, some stretch pants and call it a day.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:50pm
I've figured it out. If someone doesn't have a paying job, they don't deserve anything. A paying job is the end all be all that is necessary for one to be a worthwhile person. God forbid they not have a paying job AND be able to afford things she doesn't have, that makes them shallow. However, it wouldn't be shallow were she to have them, because she has a paying job. Remember?
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:52pm
Wow! How funny. The definition of wasting a perfectly good life (to my dh and I) would be spending it at a job. But hey, to each his own.
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Registered: 05-28-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:53pm
LOL! No *envy* here. In fact, I can have the housekeeper/lawn tech/nanny/cook, SAH, and take 2 baths a day all on my dh's income alone. That's just not the life I want.

People can live whatever life they want. And why should they care what I think anyway? But it doesn't make me any less suprised to see people live that way. (did you read my "E! True Hollywood Story" post?)

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