This is another reason why, if you're a woman, it's incredibly important for you to work hard enough and establish a lifestyle where your husband has the option to stay at home and/or avoid full-time professional work if he so chooses.

It takes an incredible amount of work to run a household. It's not fair to ask him to do two jobs. And that's ESPECIALLY true after you begin having children.

The first thing you (as the woman) must do is get off the hedonistic treadmill of consumerism that drives the desire to have two incomes.