I agree with BG. I'm a SAHM and my goodness, finances are impossible most of the time but it's still the right decision for us. But there are plenty of instances where people NEED to work and it's nobody else's business.

I hear where you're coming from - I got it when I said I wasn't returning to work, people told me I wouldn't last, I'd go mad, blah blah. But we're three years on and I don't believe I've gone entirely mad It's been really hard at times, especially when DH lost his well paid job that he held when I left work, but we get by. I get sick of the assumption that we're made of money because I don't work but we have an extremely tight budget and it has to do.

Someone will always have something to say about your decision, always when it's the opposite to the one they've made. It doesn't mean that your decision is wrong, or that theirs is wrong. But I understand how frustrating it is, regardless of which side of the fence you're sitting on