hi all,
I'm a stay at home dad who's had a couple of years out combining being the main carer ("spending time with my family") with doing one or two other activities, including business consultancy, some study, helping friends and getting very actively involved in ds' school stuff - PTA, Board that sort of stuff.
It's been great and I'm really grateful for having had the opportunity and I'm sure me and my ds will reap the benefits in time, but I'm beginning to feel that it's time I got back into the big bad world of work and have started the chore of looking for a job - I really do want to get back out and start doing something and earning some money again, but I keep getting these little pangs of guilt. My DP is (currently) our breadwinner and works very hard, including the almost obligatory long hours. We've got one or two family situations ongoing(who hasn't) which together with her work tend to mean that she sees very little at all of our ds.
So such a move would be a very big change in our circumstances and would probably mean an awful lot of adjustment on everyone's part with, I fear, the biggest loser being our ds. Hence the guilt pangs I guess.
I'm sure lots of you have been there - any advice, thoughts, opinions, welcome.