Husband making $150K asks his expecting wife who hates her job if she'd become a stay-at-home mom, she feels insulted by the suggestion: 'I would never stay at home all day.

He didn't ask her to be a stay-at-home mom because he wanted to clip her wings, but that is how she took the request.

It's no secret that many men have complexes about stay-at-home moms. A considerable population of weirdos consider them the ultimate freeloaders, sitting around at home all day scrolling through Instagram reels, washing a dish or two over the course of eight hours, while their hardworking husbands slave away providing in the salt mines, or wherever they imagine that their husbands are working. Another subsection of freaks believes that being a stay-at-home mom is the only noble pursuit a woman could possibly pursue, and any woman choosing to contribute to the household through her full-time career is robbing her children of the full extent of a mother's love. How could your kids possibly know that you love them if you're not willing to sacrifice yourself fully for them?

It's not just men who have these backwards ideas of what it means to be a stay-at-home mom. These male archetypes have female equivalents: stay-at-home moms who judge working moms and vice versa. It's so easy for one group to judge another, especially when they've never walked in the other group's shoes. I'm sure that if every mom experienced both of these lifestyles for a considerable period of time, they would concede that neither is inherently nefarious.

There's a difference between disrespecting the efforts of stay-at-home moms wholesale and feeling strongly that such a lifestyle is not the right fit for you. Some might find it insensitive to proclaim, "I am not going to sit around at home all day and never have adult conversations." They might feel it minimizes the work that stay-at-home moms do. However, frustration from a lack of adult interaction is a common downside to staying home with babies for years, and it's not a crime to feel uncomfortable with abandoning your work life.

via Getty Images (Unsplash+)

_{Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.}
The woman in this story was flabbergasted at her husband's insinuation that she become a stay-at-home mom. To him, it was a no-brainer. They are about to have a baby, and she hates her job. But staying at home was the last thing on her mind.
Am I the bad guy for asking my wife to be a stay-at-home mom?

via u/piglipsbo
via u/piglipsbo
via Getty Images (Unsplash+)

_{Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.}
via u/piglipsbo
via Annie Spratt

_{Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.}
via u/piglipsbo
via u/piglipsbo
via u/piglipsbo
$She told me that she would never stay at home all day to be my b\\\\.$

via u/piglipsbo
via u/piglipsbo
via u/piglipsbo
via u/Poppy_Banks
via u/bethafoot
via u/Physical_Dance_9606
via u/After_Translator_223
via u/Cleanslate2
via u/SecretAgentSpyder
via u/Jamaican_me_cry1023
via u/Live-Courage-3091