Posted on 06/14/2004 6:54:52 PM PDT by summer
Not my wife.
I have found also that to keep a certain lifestyle some households need two incomes. The desire for their wife to work also is out of greed, to "keep up with the Jones'"
But I am with you, the most important thing for us was that I be home when we have children. I am SAH soon to be mom, and DH loves the fact that everything in the house is taken care of and he doesn't have to do anything at home except for the lawn. He loves the fact that he can come home for lunch (which he does often, he works 2.5 miles from home), and dinner is ready for him. Often if I don't have any scheduled during the day, I will bake (today I made Koulourakia, a greek cookie he likes to take into work to share with his coffee drinking coworkers). He likes the fact that if there is any errands to run, I have time during the day to do so, and I take care of the finances (well, household, he takes care of long term planning and saving)
We also plan to homeschool our kids. I have a Masters Degree. I did work for a while. I don't regret staying at home, I feel my work as a wife and mother are much more important to my family and society than any amount of money I could be making.
Yes, I think my wife is better socialized when she works, plus I like the extra money to pay bills.
What is she? A three year old?
We also plan to homeschool our kids. I have a Masters Degree. I did work for a while. I don't regret staying at home, I feel my work as a wife and mother are much more important to my family and society than any amount of money I could be making.
What you have is wonderful. Treasure it!
TS
TS
Good question. However, what is also true is that it is women who traditionally want the modern conveniences PLUS the "beautiful" home and in many instances, this cannot be acquired or obtained on a single-income household. Dittos, two cars. Furthermore, preferential affirmative action in many areas includes quotas for women (all ethnicities); quotas for minority males -- but nothing for white males; thereby putting his own marketability and income in a higher risk category.
Also, what is not asked in this survey (and I find curious, or suspect..)? Do daddies want college for their offspring in the same % as mommies do? If so, a second income may be quite necessary. (Given how much college costs; plus how little it delivers in re quality; nonetheless, degrees are still required at most if not many businesses).
Are you still married to this "man"?? : )
The Dutch girl on the can IS kinda hot.
No, but I'm wondering whether you are.
I told my wife we need and upstairs maid.
She's just toooo sharp. She said no.
Just because we don't have an upstairs.
I am certainly fed up with the working world. I long for the days when I was able to stay home with my children, instructing them when they were home and making our world more beautiful when they weren't, gardening and canning and cooking, sewing clothes or curtains, rehabbing our house, and running errands so that everything was perfect when Daddy got home. We would all sit down in the handsome kitchen I had created and enjoy a home-made family dinner before the fireplace. Daddy also got a non-exhausted, cooperative wife who was ready for anything.
I am certainly fed up with the working world. I long for the days when I was able to stay home with my children, instructing them when they were home and making our world more beautiful when they weren't, gardening and canning and cooking, sewing clothes or curtains, rehabbing our house, and running errands so that everything was perfect when Daddy got home. We would all sit down in the handsome kitchen I had created and enjoy a home-made family dinner before the fireplace. Daddy also got a non-exhausted, cooperative wife who was ready for anything.
Any human being would be, IMO. Male or female. "Working" in this context wouldn't necessarily involve a paying gig, either. Even volunteerism would accomplish that. What matters is getting out there and meeting people and keep that mind from atrophying.
No, but I'm wondering whether you are.
Not at all. You sound like a parent talking about sending Little Lola to nursery school.
Guys want stuff, that's why the mothers are working. They'd rather have "stuff" than have the kids raised by the mom & not a nanny or nanny-state.
I remember those times too. I sometimes didn't leave the house for a week at a time. Twas wonderful.
You bet I do. She needs to be out working a 12 hour day, then get her butt home pronto and fetch my supper. And if she complains one bit, I'll put on one of these and give her what she deserves!
After all, that's what these Euro-weenies have you believing, isn't it?
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