If my partner ever ended up in a bad spot I can get work easy. This is part of the consideration. But I believe that being in a bad spot because one partner got laid off is against every American ideal we hold.

What are these people babbling about.

Well, in my own case I do a bit of contract work from-home that keeps my mind sharp. But that is a 5-10 hour-a-week job (mostly because that is all it takes... billing goes higher realistically as I spend time confirming my results and I also know I finish things twice as fast as any other contractor they worked with,…

Absolutely! I don’t mean to say that it is inherent or, uuuhg, “natural” at all.

I hate the idea that partners-in-life are also “fallback plans”. I mean that it just sucks that we (you and me) know we can exist under a single income but the assumption and desire is always to find ways to provide one’s energy to a corporation and not to one’s own family.

Absolutely, but why not aspire to a middle-class where working for other’s benefit is one’s life work? For a short while in American history there was a single-income option. I simply do not understand the resistance to aspiring for such now as our tempered and developed social justice means it would be far less…

:D I think it was... 1995? I was 11 and I have strong memories of watching with my family on first run. It was kinda a big deal in ‘95!

haha! That sounds perfect, actually. AWiT is very much like Dhal novels. L’Engle wrote about “adult” ideas in a means that made children “understand”. Think of every time on TV or in film a character has demonstrated a wormhole by folding a bit of paper to make the “entry” and “exit” points the same as a means to…

Absolutely. I don’t mean to propose that a single idea is what works for everyone. It doesn’t. Being a single parent is the hardest permutation of working and is absolutely something wrapped up in shitty political/social views that seriously hamstring single mothers (often specifically!).

That’s a huge assumption about “all women” that just isn’t true. My own experience has been that women are just as success-driven as men, and when provided with the ability to be taken seriously they’re indistinguishable from “men” in corporate settings. Hell, the women I’ve worked with as peers ran the gamut from…

She looks so young!

Men rarely have those options.

Sure. I do not because I don’t value a dollar sign over living my life as best I can for me. I used to make six-figures and I turned my back on it quickly because I would do nothing but work for other people for 70-80 hours a week for forty years until maybe I enjoyed my old age.

She seemed to care about the values and principles that soldiers are taught they’re fighting for. She acted accordingly.

She’s already in jail (where she belongs, to be sure)

My heart gets enough blessings every time I see my in-laws in SC for another million years of sinning :p

It is probably “fantastic fiction” if you want to place it in a genre.

There’s something telling in that women don’t see a number, generally, as their goal. Women tend to have a far more “complete” view of human experience which doesn’t let them sacrifice unduly for a few thousand more a year.