• Flying Squid
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    37 hours ago

    Right? I have put my child first in everything I do since the day I was born and I know for a fact that she would be much less happy if we were richer but I was gone all the time.

    As it is, she has a dad who stayed at home to raise her for the first two years of her life and a dad who also was able to stay at home and put her through online school because she was severely bullied for being queer and autistic to the point that the whole school was against her- but I have always been available to her and always had her back and I know she appreciates it even as a surly teenager.

    And right now, we’re living in a crappy and small apartment and she is fine with it because I picked it in a location I knew she would enjoy and she gets to go out and have adventures on her own and will always have a dad she can come back to if there are any problems.

    Fuck these “I worked 80 hours a week for my family and that’s why they’re in a 5-bedroom McMansion today” people. You are working for yourself. Spend less time working and more time with your kids.