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Handle This: Your Boyfriend Wants a Stay-at-Home Wife
After a few great years together, you and your boyfriend have finally started talking more seriously about your future. You both want marriage and children, but it comes as surprise when he informs you that he expects his wife to run the household while he's at work.
You’re not against the idea of being a stay-at-home mom, but you currently like your job, and most of all you like the option of deciding what’s best for you.
How Much Are You Worth?
Putting a price on things seems to be a theme this week. Yesterday I asked you how much you'd pay for an orgasm and today we're talking about the monetary worth of a housewife. As we all know, staying home and running the household is a full-time job and researches in the UK have estimated that the position of a housewife is valued at £30,000 ($60,000) a year.
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True Confession — I Like Being a Stay-at-Home Mom!
Weigh in and tell us if you forgive or not forgive this True Confession.
"I hate that I have to defend my decision to be a stay-at-home mom. My friends and family think I just sit around and do nothing all day.
Why Some Women Give Up Custody of Their Children
No matter how egalitarian people say they are, there's still an assumption that a woman's connection to her children is stronger — and perhaps more sacred — than a man's, and when a couple splits, she should naturally retain custody.
Rebekah Spicuglia understands the stigma of noncustodial motherhood all too well. She got pregnant when she was 18 and started taking classes at community college.
Adrageous: Flirty Girl Fitness
Why run on a boring treadmill when you can pretend to give a random sweaty dude a chair dance — and strengthen your quads?
With the Flirty Girl Fitness exercise DVD, even stay-at-home soccer moms will find their inner-stripper. One woman claims that with FGF, she lost two feet!
You Asked: His Mother Is Trying to Control Him!
Dear Sugar,
My boyfriend and I have been going out for four years; since I was 20. Despite working full time, he still lives at home with his mother who is very controlling, and in turn, he lets her treat him that way. The problem is he can't say no to her.
Group Therapy: Should I Listen to My Parents?
Back in April I suffered a stroke, but I'm OK now, just at home recovering. I am 21 and have known my current boyfriend for a while, but we have dated seriously for about four months. Somehow my mom found out that I am having sex with him, and she called him and was angry.
Turn On or Turn Off? Stay-at-Home Dads
There's something incredibly sexy about a man that's good with kids. Perhaps that quality just pulls on my maternal heart strings, but I have a feeling I'm not alone on this one. Though they're not set in stone, many of the roles we play are dictated by society, and women being the ones who stay at home is one of them.
You Asked: I'm Stuck in the Middle
Dear Sugar,
My mother got divorced from her husband of 16 years, a year and a half ago. He claimed he didn't love her anymore, and my mother was left wounded and angry. Together they have a wonderful 12-year-old son, my half-brother, who now takes turns staying with each of them.
Am I "overreacting" or am I allowed to feel this way?
I'm 22 now, and I'm as depressed as ever. I lost my dad when I was 6, but I'm still mourning him, and I have no one to talk to about it. It seems like it was so long ago that I don't think people understand why I'm still upset about it.
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