Which came first, the title or the SAHW?
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Which came first, the title or the SAHW?
| Fri, 12-19-2003 - 9:04am |
Last night I attended my husband's work Christmas party. I sat with the CEO, CFO, CTO, COO (Chief operations officer, I didn't know that acronym, I had to ask), Creative Director, Marketing Director and their wives. Near the end of the evening it was just we wives chatting mostly about kids. I made the observation that even though all the wives were intelligent, educated and accomplished women, not a single one (except me), woh. They are all SAHM's.
Any thoughts on why that might be? I have my own opinion but I'd like to hear from everyone else first. Do you think they sah because of their husbands jobs or their husbands have their jobs because the wives stay home? Or doesn't it matter?

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If we were so justified in going in there, then we should have had the integrity to just go anyway, instead of going based on a lie.
And I don't care if YOU think those ends justified those means, it was a freaking immoral lie. That you support such behavior while at the same time villifying something that was nothing more than marital infidelity says....well....everyone knows what it says.
If you really think the world is better off with the situation over there even MORE unstable than it ever was then you must have a very skewed idea of what's good for the world.
It doesn't appeal to you at all? I think it's the best job on the planet.
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Dh is a partner in a small law firm. Being a partner means that in addition to billing as many hours as the associates he has to participate in running the firm. He also devotes many hours to developing business (outside normal business hours). In addition, he travels quite a bit. I would be very difficult to juggle all the hours he is gone if I were not available most of the time. I beleive corporate officers have more demands on their time than average workers. I think that is why so many of their spouses choose not to work.
Jenna
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Having lived that life I would imagine that if a person did not LOVE thier job they would not want to remain committed to it after the income was no longer needed. I understand the attraction of having a satisfying career of one's own, but I can't imaging going through the hassles of having a dual career family unless both partners were enjoying what they were doing. I think many of these women may have been in jobs that were less than satisfying to them. So they chose to give them up when they were no longer needed.
Jenna
Jenna
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