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09/19/06

The Reluctant Spouse

Posted by : Adrienne Bashista in Hoping to Adopt Blog at 06:45 pm , 167 words, 2935 views  
Categories: Marriage
I'm starting a new category in this blog: The Reluctant Spouse.

I have one, that's why.

I've posted about it before. Here, and here.

He has nothing against adopting another child, he says. Except for the money factor. And we're not talking the cost of adoption, either. Thanks to some lovely folks who participated in my unscientific poll I've shown him that private domestic adoption (which is probably what we'd do) is not the bank-breaker that we'd originally thought.

It's the other costs:

3 years of pre-k = $18,000
clothes, food, etc, = I dunno, a lot.
me not working full time = -45,000/year

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college: yikes!
prescriptions for antidepressants... (ha ha, just kidding!)

Ouch.

So I get it! I really, really get it. That's why I've purchased Powerball tickets (drawing Weds. night - cross your fingers for me!).


Here's a great discussion from Adoptive Families about reluctant spouses. And here's an essay by Jill Smolowe about having a reluctant spouse.

Is your spouse reluctant? What are the issues you're dealing with?

Comments, Pingbacks:

Comment from: Sandra Hanks Benoiton [Member] Email · http://international.adoptionblogs.com/
And although it doesn't apply in your case, Adrienne, here's the link to my blog on reluctant spouses:

http://older-parent.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/reluctant-spouses-speak-slowly
PermalinkPermalink 09/20/06 @ 02:27
Comment from: Adrienne Bashista [Member] Email · http://hoping.adoptionblogs.com/
Thank you for that - I should have remembered.
A
PermalinkPermalink 09/20/06 @ 04:37
Comment from: Sandra Hanks Benoiton [Member] Email · http://international.adoptionblogs.com/
By the way, I love your graphic on this post. It's so...so...well, reluctant spouse-ish.
PermalinkPermalink 09/20/06 @ 06:59
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