Our "Reversed-Roles" Lifestyle...

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It works for us.

I joined the Coast Guard a few years ago, and shortly after, my husband was laid off of his job as a Glazier. That was ok with me, he needs to be his own boss anyway.

He is an artist. He makes surfboards and sells them just to make enough to buy more supplies. He does it when the temperature is right and DD is at school; otherwise, he is a full-time dad.

I go to work five days or more a week (depending on OPs Tempo) and sustain our livable income in a male-dominated field. But I love my work, and my husband supports that. The demand of my job makes job hunting for him difficult. He has a trade skill that is just not in a booming sector of the economy right now, and his hours have little flexibility based on my schedule and duty.

The best part is the relationship the three of us have. Daddy isn't tied down by a schedule and this allows him to take quality-time trips surfing and snowboarding with his little girl. God knows I wouldn't be doing such exciting things so often were I a SAHM. I don't have the awkward affection that my dad had with the kids when he was sustaining a career; I'm just as close with my DD as any mom, we cuddle and cook together, I'm home every night and on most weekends. But dh has so much more time to establish that relationship soooo many girls don't get to have with dad's that work and I love that. He keeps himself sane, between travel and his art, so I have no problem with being the economic "head of household."

I still won't let him do the laundry...