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Hubby is getting tremendous stress at work that it has already causing him healthy problems. He needs to see a cardiologist and is also having terrible migraines that makes him vomit violently some nights. As his wife, my heartaches to see him like this so I told him to quit his job and I’ll go to work instead. I loved my old job and my boss is happy to take my back but hubby cannot get over his pride. The thought of the wife working and him staying at home to look after our baby daughter literally makes him feel impotent. Arghhh what am I gonna do?!!!

Posted by yyon4699, 29th January 2014

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- - mom81879 said
  - 19 Sep 2015
    4:49 pm
There’s not too many stay at home dads, the stay at home mums way outweigh the dads, but they are out there. He’s being silly, sounds like he needs a change. Even if he does it for a short while, it doesn’t need to be forever

- - mom93821 said
  - 05 May 2015
    4:16 am
Caring for kids is an important role and busy role and there will be no time for him to feel anything but tired!

- - eviejude said
  - 30 Apr 2015
    10:12 pm
My husband is a bit older than me and quit his job to stay home and look after our daughter. He loves being the stay at home dad. I would love not to have to work full time, but we really can’t afford it.

- - mom57522 said
  - 30 Aug 2014
    5:32 pm
My husband recently retired and he at first he was apprehensive about being at home but now he loves it!

- - coppin85 said
  - 30 May 2014
    11:37 pm
Get him to watch house husbands! times are changing

- - scottie said
  - 30 May 2014
    5:58 pm
staying at home full time is a big job too…it is a lot of work

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 16 May 2014
    3:30 pm
i thing the switch would be good for you, as long as its the same money, else that might make it harder as well

- - kathryn said
  - 30 Apr 2014
    10:33 pm
my husband would love to be a stay at home dad – but at the moment we share all of the duties instead

- - fatheroffaprincess said
  - 31 Mar 2014
    7:14 pm
im a stay home dad

- - yyon4699 said
  - 29 Mar 2014
    4:11 pm
Yes we have been discussing about this and he’s quite keen to give it a try. Let’s see how it goes after the baby is old enough.
- scottie replied
  
  16 May 2014 , 8:01 am
  wonderful to hear he is willing to give it a try
- - sizzlingcool said
  - 04 Feb 2014
    12:27 am
I think stay at home dads are awesome and sexy BTW! Geez has he any idea what’s he’s in for! No peer pressure just the family rewarding kind. Why not swap roles for 6 months and see? It cant do any harm!

- - bubble6369 said
  - 03 Feb 2014
    2:46 am
I have neighbours and wife is a doctor and hubby is a stay at home dad and he loves it. I think it would be precious to have a father spend more time with their child and it can be fun maybe find some other stay at home dads or groups for him to look into see it’s pretty normal?

- - vidald79 said
  - 31 Jan 2014
    11:48 am
You could tell him to put a different spin on things. Like ‘my wife insisted on having a change in her routine and wanted to have a turn away from the house.’ The other comment about the trial is a good idea, that way is sounds temporary to him and by then he might like staying at home or you could explain how it would be awesome for him to see all the special moments babies have when they are little – all the ‘first’s and learning moments.

- - mrsgreen12 said
  - 29 Jan 2014
    3:53 pm
Stay at home Dads is so common these days.
Sometimes men have to swallow their pride and do what they need to
Kids would love daddy to be home
maybe set a time, say its a trial for 6 months, and its for him to de stress and then you can see where things are in 6 months