The main thing I want to say to other women is this: protect yourself.
Given the likelihood that you will have to fend for yourself at some point in the future, maintain the capacity to support yourself.
Protect your children by making sure you can support them financially should anything happen to their father.
Protect your future happiness against the doubts harboured by frustrated stay-at-home mothers who can't shake the guilt and regret they feel about failing to explore their full potential.
Protect yourself against the desolation of the empty nest, which inflicts the deepest sense of loss on full-time mothers with no other identity to sustain them.
Protect yourself against the feelings of uselessness and isolation experienced by so many women who didn't cultivate meaningful work that would nourish them in later years.
You'll be glad you did.
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