Yeah. Gave up $80,000/yr in 2001 to become an unpaid worker without vacation. My husband and I read Liz Warren's The Two Income trap and thought would achieve better work life balance if I was a stay-at-home mom. We had a deal where I would work for the family during the day. He would pitch in after work. And our weekends and evenings would be smoooooooooooth.

Instead, I ended up carrying the brunt of the work. My husband could come home, sit in a recliner and decompress, disappear behind a laptop, while I cooked dinner, dealt with kid, cleaned the dishes, handled bedtime. He slept in everyday while I fed the kid and got him to school. During the day, I grocery shopped, mowed and edged the yard, tended to the weeds, cleaned the messes he and child left all over the house, climbed Mount Washmore, paid bills, handled car and house repairs, put out "fires", volunteered at school, planned everything that needed planning. On weekends, my husband would disappear to the bedroom to nap without asking if I wanted one. And on vacation, I was in charge of the kid - same pattern of him sleeping in while I go downstairs with kid to free breakfast. He could go fishing while I was still on mom-duty.

Don't fall for it. Just saying, FIRE-ers.