Re: the myth of the parent that NEEDS to work

Deetso — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:12:20 -0000

I must say that I agree with the premise of this article very much. In addition, my wife and I have been unable to have children yet. When we "decided" to have kids... oh five years ago... she started toning down on the job and didnt go back when the new contracts went out. So now it has been 5 years without a steady job outside of our house but I must say we both feel very spoiled and happy with out situation and life. I have breakfast lunch and dinner every day! She gets to stay home and be with her friends and do things she enjoys- seeing family and paiting and "making the house cute."

Many times we can both sense a great deal of bitterness about our situation and a lot of the underlying hostitlity you sense but I think it might be worse for us i the sense that we "dont even have kids."

It is easy for us to convince ourselves we are right when we see those people who just "have" to work and are always stressed out. We live a smaller scale life and seem much happier than those around us who think we are the crazy ones. Ill take both of us being spoiled and happy as opposed to DINKs who are unhappy and dont see each other.

The funniest part of it all is that we live of so much less than others that we are also probably in better financial shape than those people who have been forcing themselves to work so much.

So there you have it- it seems quite easy for us to live cheaply and save money and be happy all at once, despite what the naysayers want us to believe.

Kinda long and rambling but I was inspired!

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