WOHM's who say they have to work
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WOHM's who say they have to work
| Sun, 10-29-2006 - 4:17pm |
For those of you that WOH and say you have to do it to make ends meet. Do you really do it to make ends meet or do you do it cause you want to keep up a certain lifestyle? Do you know how to live with out debt or without having to keep up with the joneses?
ETA Please excuse all my siggys. Obviously I dont know how to turn them off. I thought I did.


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Well considering there are an endless amount of parenting choices I don't think I could possibly be able to answer this question. Why would you even ask this anyway?
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Do I need to define odd? Odd means that it is different than what I think is ordinary. I find things many people do odd. I am sure people find things I do odd. It isn't about good, bad, approve disapprove....it is just what I find odd.
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"Ordinary" to me is a neighborhood full of parents with advanced, post college degrees, many of whom have dual WOHP households.
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Read further. That the parents are utilizing every last minute of the facilities opening hours.
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Nope...missed the point. Didn't gotcha.
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You asked me about why I mentioned something was odd. My mistake, I thought that is what you were asking. If you continue to read the thread you will see that when that topic was brought up in was in response to someone asking me about it.
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My uncle was in the military and he was never deployed. My DH works with 3 National Guardsmen..none have been deployed.
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That wouldnt be a moot point. This may be his career.
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What makes you think that he wasn't in the Navy/Marines before children?
FTR, a deployment is any absence from ones home base. So I doubt seriously that your uncle was in the military and NEVER deployed. For example, when my ex was sent to Ft. Irwin, CA for 4 weeks from Ft. Riley, KS, THAT was a deployment. It was a short term deployment, but a deployment nonetheless.
And if her husband was in the service before kids, then he knew when he had those kids with her that he'd spend lots of time away from them.
Look. . .no one has said that military parents are inherently bad parents. Heck, I haven't even said that my kids have been negatively effected by their father's deployments and he's been gone 41 out of the last 61 months (or 2/3 of the time). . .but the fact remains that she made statements against WOHMs when those moms STILL see their kids more than her husband sees his at times. If he can be deployed without it negatively effecting HIS kids, why can't I work without it negatively effecting mine?
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Yes it does carry a risk, which is why one prepares for that risk with insurance, it's a known risk.
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