Disclaimer...... I am not married and do not forsee being married in the near future. However if a potential husband had talked to me about staying at home while he worked, in the Donna Reed/June Cleaver fashion, I would view that as that he dosent know me well enough to seriously consider marrying me. Now if he wants to stay at home that's another story.
you also have to consider personality. I know I'd be miserable staying at home (I don't have that homemaker instinct AT ALL) and I would work solely for my sanity.
Not everyone is cut out to stay at home. I'm definitely not. There was brief periods of time where my mom did not work, and in terms of family life, it only brought us further apart than closer together. She also had no idea how to live off my dad's income alone, and spent a good amount of time shopping, etc. I don't really remember good homecooked meals in that time period, and 13 is a hard age to all of a sudden have a SAHM.
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