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originally posted by: Edumakated
Just curious how folks feel about stay home dads?
My wife commented the other day that I could be a stay home dad. I don't think she was really serious, but the past couple of years I've been kind of working part time because my job / business is extremely flexible. I make my own hours and so a lot of the errands and misc stuff that comes along with raising kids tends to fall on me - day care drop offs, unplanned doctor's appointments, etc. I even stayed home two days a week when my first child was born.
I've usually been the breadwinner. However, my wife has been moving up the corporate ladder quite fast over the past five years and is now making more than I was making. She likes her job / career and is highly sought after by headhunters.
I've found I am actually quite good at the housekeeping and kids stuff. In a way, I kind of enjoy it too.
We have a few friends where the fathers are essentially stay home dads. The wives are high powered executives.
While I am generally conservative in views, I am not all that big on gender roles necessarily. I support what works. My wife isn't the stay home type, so I'd never tell her she is the one who needed to stay home.
Discuss...
originally posted by: Blaine91555
a reply to: Edumakated
That would depend on your personal situation and whether or not it creates division between you and your wife or not. Is it the case where all money is our money or it's your money and my money if that makes sense?
There is zero wrong with being a stay at home dad. I'd say it can be a good thing provided it does not cause a rift in the relationship over who's money it is.
originally posted by: Edumakated
Just curious how folks feel about stay home dads?
My wife commented the other day that I could be a stay home dad. I don't think she was really serious, but the past couple of years I've been kind of working part time because my job / business is extremely flexible. I make my own hours and so a lot of the errands and misc stuff that comes along with raising kids tends to fall on me - day care drop offs, unplanned doctor's appointments, etc. I even stayed home two days a week when my first child was born.
I've usually been the breadwinner. However, my wife has been moving up the corporate ladder quite fast over the past five years and is now making more than I was making. She likes her job / career and is highly sought after by headhunters.
I've found I am actually quite good at the housekeeping and kids stuff. In a way, I kind of enjoy it too.
We have a few friends where the fathers are essentially stay home dads. The wives are high powered executives.
While I am generally conservative in views, I am not all that big on gender roles necessarily. I support what works. My wife isn't the stay home type, so I'd never tell her she is the one who needed to stay home.
Discuss...
Don't do it, she is planning to start having an affair with some dude at the office. Someone had to say it.