Stay at home wives with no kids

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DeadHorse

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I saw this today on the Inter-google. It's basically about middle class women who decide to quit work and stay at home but have no kids. I also realize that this doesn't represent a large block of the population.

What's your opinion on this? We're not talking about super wealthy people here. My take is that these women went to college, got a job, and realized working isn't all it's cracked up to be. They then suckered their husbands into letting them stay at home and do nothing all day. That's just my .02.

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My fiance quit her job - she was doing a job that she should have been paid a lot more for - i.e. her boss quit and she did the job but they refused to promore her because she was too young (important in Asia). She quit and isn't working now - I love it.

She's not stressed, goes to the gym all the time, takes care of the wedding and our house renovation etc.

I don't want her working unless she loves the job or she can make a ton of money. Getting a job and making 60 grand a year or something would just cause us stress and not improve our lives materially in any way.

I can totally understand why the husbands wouldn't care.

When we have kids I want her home anyway and I think that is what she will want to.
 
With all due respect, Horn in Hong Kong makes too much money to be considered in that article.

If hubby is bringing down big money, why should the woman bother? The people in that article seemed to be fairly middle class, though. Hell, one lived in Lewisville.
 
did you catch how they spelled Lewisville? Nice.

It does seem odd to me to be a stay at home....person. A Mom I can understand, but a stay at home wife..really? I mean can you not handle the stress of everyday life like most people? Yeah, you have to juggle things, but that is part of the marriage. Both people juggle. Seems lazy to me.
 
I'll let me wife stay at home but when we have kids she'll have to get to work to help me support them.
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I worked a job for 30 years while my kids were still growing. Now that my last is off to college, I am a stay at home wife. WHY you ask? Because I like to travel. I am gone alot either with my husband (who travels for his job) OR I am visiting family, or I am doing a girls trip. I LOVE IT.

I also enjoyed working immensly - I love to be around people. But as much as I am on the go, I cannot do both.

My husband makes enough money for me to stay at home BUT, AND THIS IS A BIG BUT, I make my play money selling on EBAY. I do quite well and it affords me pretty much anything I want.

Best of both worlds.
 
In my job I have a lot of opportunities for overtime and a few other extra things I could do to make more money. I never take advantage of any of it. I like my job, but it's still a job and I do just enough to pay the bills, take care of my family, and live a comfortable lifestyle. If I could do less and make the same I would.

If I had the choice of not working at all and living my same middle class lifestyle or working 20 hours a week and being a bazillionaire, I think I'd choose not working at all.

Life is short, why would anybody work if they didn't have to. My wife and I both make about the same money right now. If we could get by on just one of our salaries we'd probably flip a coin to see who gets to quit working.
 
I pretty much insisted that my wife get a job even after having kids. She needed something to stimulate her brain during the day. She'd spend all day with a toddler and mothers with other toddlers, and her brain was turning to mush.

To be fair, though, I got burned out on my job a couple of years ago and took some time off, and my brain started turning to mush, too, thanks to too much time lying on the couch.

I can't imagine how anyone can NOT have a job (or daily duties or whatever). I'm kind of dreading retirement.
 
No f'n way. When I got married it was supposed to be a partnership. We both had good jobs when we got married. My wife bailed because she hated her boss and was supposed to find another job. We had kids and she has been at home ever since. Our kids are in high school now and I am putting pressure on her to go back to work. She has got used to not working and avoids going back to work. We would be in much better shape for retirement if she were working. If we wouldn't have had kids, no way I wouldn't feel taken advantage of if my wife were not working. You can't ever have too much jack.
 
She better know how to tend to a smoker so that there is plenty of top notch ribs, brisket and loin.
 
People can structure their lives however they want, but I'l reserve the right to mock and judge them unmercifully.

I've always enjoyed the stay-at-home moms with kids who have a full time nanny, a cook, and a maid.

Basically, admitting that her contribution to the family is to have sex with her husband. Which she doesn't.
 
My bride scaled her hours back from unholy to about 25 per wk about half telecommute hours. It was a good move. Married couples tend to sync up on one another's emotional state and what is good, perhaps indulgently so for one, is more often good for the other.
 
Don't worry about your stay-at-home wife getting bored or lonely, because Raul the pool-boy will keep her properly entertained.
 
The original post was all wrong. The only thing that should come after the title "Stay at home wives with no kids" is:

better have the whole house clean, laundary done, bills paid, dinner ready to eat and consumate other duties later.

As someone up there said, you wanna play 1950's, you better play all the way.
 
i have a theory on human nature. basically, we all need drama.

so, when you have a woman who stays at home and has nothing to do all day, she's going to create drama for herself or else she'll die of boredom.

in other words, "hi, i'm here for the gangbang."
 
IT worked for my brother and his wife. She worked for a couple weeks, didn't like it and he said he'd rather she devote her time to taking care of him and making herself happy so he didn't have to come home to a stressed out and unhappy wife.

I thought it was odd but it worked for them, so it ain't a bad thing.

Totally echo what was said above though- if you are going to swing that deal you damn sure better keep a clean house, have the shopping and laundry done and the dinner made. Otherwise, you just ain't holding up your end of the bargain (if you are middle class).

If you are filthy rich and can hire that all done more power to you I guess.
 
My ideal situation would be if me and my future wife could both work 20-30 hours a weeks, instead of one of us working 40-60, and the other 0. Ideally the income would be the same, but we'd both have lower stress levels, equal amount of free time. We could share the chores, etc.

My other dream would to be able to work 5 different jobs for every day of the week, so I don't get bored with each one.
 
If she has dinner ready for me when I get home and the house cleaned, then it's a great idea. I don't care if she has to create drama, just not on my clock. Gangbang away for all I care
 
This is not that uncommon in construction (management) and field engineering. Once the guys start making the money and move a ton, usually the wife works until the first overseas assignment. Of course, this also depends on the company the husband works for.
 
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