I have a working wife, and I will say that I don't see how that improves my marriage at all, if anything, it makes it worse. But you have to look at what your reasons are for working. If it is for money, then you would probably be shocked to find out that many working women actually COST their familes money! ABC 20/20 analysed a family in Boston years ago to relive the stress in the family and found that if the wife QUIT the families income would actually increase. There are a lot of hidden costs to being a working MOM, like tax increases, social security, extra car payments, clothing for the job, eating out way too much, etc. My own wife makes 50K a year, and have 3 months off during the summer. Even using inexpensive childcare for only 9 months a year, I figured out that it took at least 65% of her income to pay for items that allowed her to have a job!!! If she was making 25-30k a year, she would have actually LOST the family money to work. So you should really analyze every single item in your families budget to see if working is really worth it. Do you really want to work if it costs you 60 cents of every dollar you make just to allow you to have a job?
