My husband paid me $15 an hour to be a stay-at-home mom. Here’s what I learned.

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Melissa Petro is a freelance novelist, wife, and mother living in New York City. Instead of returning to full-time work after she had a baby, she persuaded her husband to pay her to handle all the childcare, housework, and other familial responsibilities. She contributed up the hours she’d work each week and multiplied that by an hourly wage, subtracting the above figures from what she owed the family budget. Still needing a second job to make ends meet, Petro soon germinated spent by all the responsibilities on her dish, especially as her son went older. Later, her husband lost his job, impelling the couple to swap capacities only. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more fibs.

Before I became a baby, my husband and I had an equal partnership: We both succeeded full meter — he as the expert consultants in digital media, me as a freelance writer — and contributed 50 -5 0 to a family budget. We too did our best to split the household work equally.

Then I got pregnant and dedicated birth, and equality went out the window.See the rest of the narration at Business Insider

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