Hmm, I guess so. I do know that I wouldn't like to live like this myself. I'd personally be miserable!

I agree that society seems to have many bad things to say about women's life choices compared to the amount of good things. I wonder if this is the same for guys? I get the impression that some old stereotypes of girls and guys still float around. I wasn't allowed or was dissuaded from following some of my own interests when growing up because "I'm a girl," and it's only caused problems for me as an adult since I have to learn all those things from the beginning.

I'm very glad not every woman thinks about wrongly taking advantage of marriage and their children for their own purposes. Phew! I can be overly-worried sometime. You all sound very sweet, actually. It's nice reading these stories.