SAHM's and Money
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SAHM's and Money
| Fri, 06-23-2006 - 1:57pm |
I am a WOHM but have always felt like this, even as a kid. I know it is probably wrong, but it is a strong feeling I have had.
When SAHM's say "I bought this or "I saved MY money for this", I always want to say "YOUR" money? Now, don't get me wrong, my mom was a SAHM and a great one at that but she would get spending money every week, just like I do, while working, but I can't feel technically that it was "HER" money.
Staying home is a hard job, being home today I can say that it is much harder to have a stressful out of the house job AND have kids but it is more physically demanding then my job.
I just feel that any money in the household has been made by the dh and is really "HIS" all the time. He just gives it to his wife to spend. I know this is horrible but I was wondering if anyone else felt this way?
When SAHM's say "I bought this or "I saved MY money for this", I always want to say "YOUR" money? Now, don't get me wrong, my mom was a SAHM and a great one at that but she would get spending money every week, just like I do, while working, but I can't feel technically that it was "HER" money.
Staying home is a hard job, being home today I can say that it is much harder to have a stressful out of the house job AND have kids but it is more physically demanding then my job.
I just feel that any money in the household has been made by the dh and is really "HIS" all the time. He just gives it to his wife to spend. I know this is horrible but I was wondering if anyone else felt this way?

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Taking this totally off the beaten path, but if it's OK with you, I'm going to take this sentence totally out of context and make a rule out of it. :-D
Granted, I don't know who would do it all, but what do I care? I've been slaving over a hot computer at work all day. ;-)
So true! It goes in waves for me. Up to about age 8, I had very little free time. 9 to 10, it eased up and there was more time for me. (Age 10 was especially nice, because that's when he started sleeping all night long...so I got free time and some sleep, too.) After about 11, the activities out of school started, requiring a lot of taxi service, so I've had to devote a lot of time to that. Once they start driving themselves, I suppose that part would become less of a problem and the more free time thing might happen again.
THis, of course, would be true regardless of work status.
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