Forgive me for namechanging for this - know people in RL on the site.
Both my DH and I work full time OTH. My DH is ten years older than me - now 53 and would like to retire from his job. The problem is that we have children who are still at primary school and an ocean of financial commitments.
It would be great to have someone at home more. He maintains he will get a small part-time job. He is also not especially well- nothing life-threatening but a long term health problem so this would be good for his health.
We can just about meet our financial commitments on my salary but I am literally terrified of the prospect because my job is very insecure (don't want to say what it is because will out myself) particularly nowadays. I mean very insecure - a round of redundancies was announced last week.
We've always had the luxury of knowing that if one of us did lose our jobs, we could survive courtesy of the others salary. This security is about to be eliminated and I am really worried if it is just down to me that I might let everyone down.