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In reply to the discussion: WTF? Alan Grayson's estranged wife is getting food stamps [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)guarantee you a paycheck after a relationship ends?
Lots of people would love to be the one to stay at home, and not to have to deal with pulling in a paycheck. Does that mean if they actually manage to pull that slot, that they should get to continue to be 'stay at home' in perpetuity afterwards, still forcing the person who had to go to work day in and day out to continue to have to after the relationship fails?
That just because you got to be 'stay at home' during a relationship, you get to continue to be 'stay at home' ever after?
That seems like an anachronistic and chauvanistic viewpoint, in which a woman is reduced to something that has to be 'taken care of', and can't be expected to take care of herself.
The reality for most of us, of course, these days, is that no one gets to be 'stay at home', because it takes everyone pulling in money to support a family.