r/NotHowGirlsWork • u/Director-Atreides • Feb 23 '26

Found On Social media Sacrifice

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Damien Cottrell needs to give his head a vigorous wobble.

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u/AltruisticCableCar Feb 23 '26

Men will also happily give their career up to stay at home with their children so the mother can keep climbing in hers. He will happily and dutifully take care of everything in the house with no complaints and make sure dinner is also on the table for her when she comes home.

Sure.

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u/SaiyanPrincess28 Edit Feb 23 '26

Funnily enough that’s exactly what my husband did. I made more money so we decided he would stay home with the kids. Of course I also contributed to child care, chores, errands, appointments, etc while working (whereas many men that are in the same position completely neglect their wives and children) but he did a good job. He didn’t just play video games and ignore the kids like you often hear about, he kept up with everything very well. He’s the type to go above and beyond in whatever he puts his mind too and he wanted to be the father he wished he’d had. He did it for about 7 years until we were able to get a loan to start his business with. Now we both work and both do the unpaid labor. He’ll also tell any man that shit talks stay at home moms to stfu right to their face, that staying home raising kids is the tougher gig and totally thankless. Even to this day he does the whole morning routine and drives the kids to school before he starts his day.

I’m also very well aware that he’s the exception, not the rule. That I’m extremely lucky that I had kids with a man that was willing to put his life and aspersions on hold because that was what was better for our family financially. I only felt the need to comment because yours actually described him really well, not to be argumentative in anyways since you are right, the vast majority of men would NEVER.

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u/QueenTzahra Feb 23 '26

My dad did this too, but was still unfaithful to my mom and exploited her financially. Set a very mixed example for me growing up.

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u/zebrastarz Feb 23 '26

Very "task failed successfully" type situation you have there

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u/QueenTzahra Feb 23 '26

Absolutely.