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The SAHM's at the park are really cold to me a WOHM. They were nice until I told them I worked, now they are snotty. What gives?
59 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]ah, the age-old question. I experience this all the time at dd's school or related functions.
[ Reply | Options ]do you think you imagine it? i am sah and have a lot of wohm friends and try to be sensitive to this.
[ Reply | Options ]no. all they talk about is their kids and when they ask how i'm doing i talk about my kids and my work. and suddenly they get judgmental and cold
[ Reply | Options ]they are definitely cold, maybe b/c I am an unknown entity. But I call them all the time for playdates, and here we are in May and I have gotten ONE call this whole year. And my nanny overheard one of them saying "what kind of mother lets someone else pick her kid up from school every day." It is a weird suburb I am in.
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Totally paranoid - maybe she just sucks as a person, I am a SAHM and don't ask and don't care what anyone else does - if they are nice and pleasant when I say Hi, that is all that matters, you are over-complicating things
[ Reply | Options ]same here. most of the wohms i am friends with are super cool. there's always that one though that has to remind everyone how important her job is
[ Reply | Options ]yep. and she's the one who never pauses to think that maybe your job before you quit to sah was bigger than hers you just don't have anything to prove.
[ Reply | Options ]Exactly. I was a partner at a major NYC law firm and wouldn't go back for all the money in the world, so always am amused by people's self-importance, if you have a job and you love it or need it, great, but don't think that a paid position makes you e or less of a person worth being friends with
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op: i don't suck as a person. all these women sought me out for friendship when i was at the park everyday. when i went back to work they judged me and talked about it with each other (i heard them) and were cold from then on
[ Reply | Options ]Just b/c people talk about something does not mean they said bad things or judged you for it - unless you went to work to get away from DBs, in case you shouldn't be surprised. In my mommy group in NYC there are moms that stayed at home and ones that we t back to work, we all adore and support each other's ch
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When I ride in a taxi cab with my DC I:
- Use a carseat
- Buckle him/her in his/her own seat
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- I'd never ride in a taxi with my DC, it's much too dangerous!
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