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Does your wife "want" to work?

Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:10 am
Posted by 911Moto
Member since Sep 2013
5491 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:10 am
I never hear the end of it from my wife about how I "held her back." I grew up in a traditional household with a stay-at-home mom. Always wanted to provide the same for my family, and being a dentist, I afforded my wife the opportunity to stay at home. When we married 19 years ago, we both had kids around 3 years old, then a few years later had one of our own, who is now 14. Before we had a kid together, I made it clear that I only wanted another kid if she was going to stay home and raise him - I was never a fan of having your kids raised by other people in daycare. It was a mutual decision at the time. However, since then I constantly get shite about how I "wouldn't let her work." WTF? For me, life is about raising a family. I only worked to earn money to provide for my family. She has an associates degree from a community college, so any work she does would generally be clerical. How does one consider filing papers, typing shite, and answering phones for someone else to be more valuable than raising your own children?
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 9:11 am
Posted by djangochained
Gardere
Member since Jul 2013
19054 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:11 am to
noope
Posted by DawgCountry
Great State of GA
Member since Sep 2012
30541 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:11 am to
Yes, she's a Spec Ed teacher and loves what she does
Posted by H.M. Murdock
B.A.'s Van
Member since Feb 2013
2113 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:12 am to
She wont be happy either way. Bitches Be Crazy.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
66763 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:12 am to
quote:

How does one consider filing papers, typing shite, and answering phones for someone else to be more valuable than raising your own children?


Aww shite. Hope she don't lurk for your sake
Posted by Moustache
GEAUX TIGERS
Member since May 2008
21556 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:12 am to
quote:

She has an associates degree from a community college


quote:

being a dentist, I afforded my wife the opportunity to stay at home.


You're a dentist and she doesn't even have a bachelors.
It sounds like you married way below your intellectual level, which usually spells bad news for a marriage.
Posted by jrodLSUke
Premium
Member since Jan 2011
22062 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:12 am to
She will get the Porche in the divorse.
Posted by Sherman Klump
Wellman College
Member since Jul 2011
4457 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:12 am to
Seeing as she would have no career, it't not a bad move.
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
61788 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:13 am to
Generally, yes.

This morning, no.
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:13 am to
I think everyone would like to work if they enjoyed their job. Just depends on the situation.
Posted by DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Member since May 2011
19419 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:14 am to
As long as it is "white collar" it doesn't matter.

IMO 2 white collar parents are better than one white collar and one stay at home. Idle minds and all that.

my brother and I were raised this way, as well as many of our friends.

It was very common in the Mandeville/Covington area in the 90's. A lot of now successful adults came from this.
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 9:15 am
Posted by BamaScoop
Panama City Beach, Florida
Member since May 2007
53807 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:18 am to
Take the monthly bills, cut them in half and tell her the dates he needs to have her half to you every month. If she falls 60 days behind kick her out of the house.
Posted by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
37721 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:19 am to
No. But she makes a lot of cheese so I don't give her an option.
Posted by constant cough
Lafayette
Member since Jun 2007
44788 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:19 am to
quote:

Does your wife "want" to work?



When did I get married?
Posted by Breauxsif
Member since May 2012
22290 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:21 am to
AA degree? You definitely married way below the poverty line. 2 white collar jobs mean everything today.
Posted by barry
Location, Location, Location
Member since Aug 2006
50337 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:21 am to
quote:

Before we had a kid together, I made it clear that I only wanted another kid if she was going to stay home and raise him - I was never a fan of having your kids raised by other people in daycare.


quote:

. It was a mutual decision at the time


No it wasn't, you gave her an ultimatum.


My wife works, she loves to work. She's not a stay at home mom. Both my kids have been in daycare since 2 months and they are well adjusted and socially advanced.
Posted by Hardy_Har
MS
Member since Nov 2012
16285 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:23 am to
It would be the same situation if you "made" her work..

You're either making her work or making her stay at home.

Mine works and doesn't see it this way because she does what she wants to but I have friends in both predicaments.
Posted by DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Member since May 2011
19419 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:23 am to
Do you know what happens to stay at home moms?

Have you even ever seen a pron video?

Posted by 911Moto
Member since Sep 2013
5491 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:26 am to
Her life basically revolves around going to the gym when she wants, getting massages when she wants, shopping when she wants, volunteering at my kid's school where she gets to hang out with her best friend who works in the office there, and traveling a couple times a month. Rough life. And not one ounce of gratitude.
Posted by meaux5
New York, NY
Member since Sep 2010
11010 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:26 am to
Tell her to get a job and see how she likes it?
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