Does anyone else love being a housewife?

[Bookaholic73]

Im just wondering if anyone else loves being a housewife and has decided with their spouse that you’ll stay at home instead of work?
Not because you have to financially, or for any other reason than you really enjoy it.

I love it. I love the traditional way of life, I love having dinner ready for my fiancé when he gets home, I love cleaning our home and making it look nice.

@hopelesssuitcase oh right. Yeah probably. Not if you can afford not to work.

So it sounds like OP worked when she did have small children and has now stopped work when she no longer has small children. I wonder what they make of that!

Poor little lady

It never ceases to amaze me how much people on this type of thread feel the need to attack other women's choices. So long as what you're doing is fulfilling and your children are thriving, who cares whether you work or stay home? In real life people seem to just get on with it. As a SAHM I'm happy to help out my working mum friends when they're in a tight spot for childcare. I'm glad I stay home, and they're generally glad that they work. Amazing how individuals can make different situations work for their family isn't it?!

Well OP if it floats your boat then do it!

I’m contemplating letting womankind down and being a SAHM for a few years

I have a serious health condition and DC with additional needs. I’ve been told I need to keep stress to a minimum. I work in a high pressure environment (medicine), the chance of a stress free pregnancy is negligible.

I’ve already lost 2 babies, stress was thought to be a factor (as combined with hormonal changes it triggered a relapse).

I won’t put further pregnancies at on the basis that I’m “letting the team down”. I may end up feeling bored but it’s a small price to pay for being well.

Well honestly for me housewifing still seems incredibly like boring and unappetizing in general
It possibly is just in my personality, but i already now that after some time i would become quite unmotivated and sort of demanding on my husband. Also, like having to really find something to do like baking cakes for the comunity or whatever is really not my cup of tea.
When we married my husband actually told that its basically up to me if i want to work or not like what would i prefer. He is taking the financial things on himself either way.
So i chose to continue with my career and part of the equation is also that i enjoy my specialty and i love to see the results of my work.

Now, when we are talking about spending a few years at home with kids, that's a totally different story. We are preparing for having children right now and i have some strategy options to go with. Generally i'd like to spend around 2 years home after the baby is born, so if we'll have kids in a row, that would also be more years at home. But even with that, my plan is to transition to online work like perhaps part-time.

I see lots of negative sides in being like a housewife only.
But in our marriage we kind of keep to traditional life so i do most of the housekeeping stuff anyway.

Maybe just some of the quality would improve if i stayed home... Financially we would loose a lot since i put a lot of my income into stocks, investment funds etc and i also love to keep my own money around.
Yes the whole thing, when the housewife gets divorces and you are stuck with barely anything, have to take a lowend jobs and the kids are on top of it...it also happens. It doesn't matter how safe it looked at first, things like that happen.

But i do follow couple of youtube channels like Mrs Midwest and Sarah Therese and I love their attitude towards life like this so in a way i kind of get it...i guess