Our economy is no longer set up for single income families. It really sucks. My husband has a great idea. On partner stays home, doesn't matter which. Heck each partner could work 20 hours a week if they wanted to but that the total working hours would stay at 40. This way there would not be all that money available to everyone to spend so enflation would have to come done, things would even out. After all a car can't be sold at $40,000 if no one has the money to buy it. Sure when the prices came down we would be no better off financially then we are now but at least we would have more time to enjoy life. Unfortunately this plan involves a ton of sacrifice until the economy came around. I don't think most people are ready for that.

As far as the note goes, it was a good opener, unfortunately it got him worked up. He had to much time to think about it before I got home. So by the time I got home and mentioned it he said all the things he usually says about feeling bad about not being able to provide enough money for the family and he said it very aggressively. I grew up with my Mom working. She made more money then my dad. So you can imagine how difficult it was for me to stay home with the kids. I felt like I was a leach. Gosh, it is a bummer we all have bad feelings about money.
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