The family respects it a lot. We don’t have any extravagant expenses. We try to live only on salary and RSUs go untouched. The partner would work in a heartbeat but we’d take an absolute nose dive in quality of life as we’d be running from work duties to house duties to kid duties to work duties (based on prior personal experience) While I personally would be willing to suffer such a life I don’t thinks it fair for kids to get the tiered, grumpy and curt parents. We brought them into this world and we owe them better if we can (if my backs against the wall sure all of that can go out of the window )

We have one life and there is something to be said about raising kids in a home environment that is “healthy” especially when we brought them into this world. I feel especially strongly about this as my kids are still little (< 10 years)

Totally understand that this may not be a point of view shared across the masses - specially here in USA where the general attitude is everybody is doing it so you shouldnt crib about it. For us our kids are a big priority and not sacrifing the evnromment they are raised in is a core value. Fyi I don’t mean environment as physically the size of house we live in etc it’s the softer thing - the home atmosphere. I live in a small apartment and we are cool with it. More importantly we live in a happy home.