"but it's a huge reason I haven't been anxious to become a mom. I'm NOT a type A personality, and get sick and miserable when I overcommit."
BOY can I relate to that! Work-life balance is REALLY important to me, if I don't have enough play time I get grumpy REAL grumpy and feel stressed.
Work suffers? Or family suffers?
Sometimes it's the mother who suffers.
I know a woman with several kids, she does LOTS of jobs at work and she had a stroke last year. I think SHE is the one that suffered. Some people manage to juggle well but for others, something's got to give. For me? I HATE to "juggle."
If I had kids I admit I WOULD be a stay at home mother at least till they were 3 or 5. And I also know I would hate not having my own income.
Then again I'm pretty jealous of these people - kids or no - whose hubby's earn so much they don't have to work, nice for some. We do quite well I guess financially but when we started off it was one income - mine - and we found it HARD.
Maybe if he was earning �800 a week every week in the hand (no tax) that's $1600 your money or if we were in the USA and he was earning $800 USD no tax then YES anything less forget it.
Last edited by Athena_Marina; 04/24/08 05:10 PM.
