I’m sure many people would agree with that one…
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Before I had my son I worked full time in a Littlewoods store doing the cooking for the cafeteria and staff canteen. I could have gone back but was told that I might not get my job back and be in another department. But I decided not to go back because it was up to me to look after my son. Sometime after I divorced my husband and after 5 years found my second one, I haven’t needed to go back to work but I wished that I went into singing in a group or by myself.
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To me and my wife, marriage is a full time partnership and everything should be decided equally just as much as responsibilities are shared equally. It’s about togetherness as a couple where absolute respect is always foremost no matter what the situation or pressures.
Perhaps our views are exceptional, but all I can say is the above works perfectly for the LongDrivers and to make it together for over 54 happy year, we must be doing something right. I cant say the same for all of our four daughters, as one of the four husbands ran off with the matron of honour a few years down the line.
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I worked until I had my first child, then stayed home with him, and the second child came along. My husband was home during the winter months, so he watched the kids while I went to work full time for a couple of years.
Then, I became a cosmetologist, built a room downstairs for my salon, and worked at home for 16 years, so I could be home when the kids got back from school each day.
When my son entered the military and my daughter went to college,( and I was fully divorced) I began my second and third career, working full time until age 67, when I retired.
I must say I am proud of my work, my choices and all of the knowledge I gained along the way.
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House husband more your thing then?
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No not at all, but 2 incomes would have been nice. 
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Share some of your singing with us please
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Yeah, the split on divorce would have been a lot more attractive 
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I don’t regret what i did
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LOL We had an amicable split. I even sold my photography gear, so I could split that money as well. I have never had nor will have any regret or animosity toward my Ex.
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Good on you Danny. That’s very commendable. 
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Thats very…unusual and dignified 
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Perfect description of me. 
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Actually it’s just the way I think . I wanted to make sure she had enough money to get a running start at a new life. She had a 20 year employment gap to overcome. Luckily when we split she went to live with her parents. Me I had plenty in my 401K and savings that a new start was easy for me. We each kept a car so all was good.
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Life has been a learning curve and I would need to write a blog to say half of my family life…Although my first almost floored us when his partner disappeared out of the blue back to her birth place she took the children and took everything including the light bulbs out of the home…My Son was devastated and we could see no wrong in his family life…
When her father turned up at the house he let him take many more items like the fridge and the freezer…He did rebuild his life when he fell in love again…
Years later we discovered he had a deceitful side and had managed to manipulate my horrible troublemaking Mother…she changed her Will shortly before she died and he inherited almost everything of the estate…1 million would be a fair estate…
Family story…now work…
Work wise I had left the civil service that I had worked in since leaving school at 15…loved the London scene more so than the job…
When they moved to …forgotten north of London though,so then I got a job in Croydon near to where I lived…
Moving on now to when married and had the children…I worked evenings doing various jobs…mainly surveys with listed addresses that the people were expecting me to call on…
Once the children were at school I got a local job in Beddington Surrey…historical beyond belief area…in the old Wandle Mills beside the River Wandle…trying to find a photo of the Mills but these old wooden cottages are right near the Mills…to get to their homes it is by a small bridge over the narrow part of the Wandle River…
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Our house was the second from the end…
lots of good memories of that place…we only moved because because of the influx of places like ~Asda soon became just a walk away…
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There have been many Divorces in this thread, is that worth a mention?
Why??
Why what? Divorces, or the fact they are mentioned here? 
Both.
Often times, the little lady who used to stay home and stifle herself, has since gotten careers, and begun to live a fulfilled lifestyle like the men have . For some men, it takes getting used to. Since the 60s, equal partners, equal responsibilities, women found out they could do more in a day than fold up her apron in the evening.
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