Originally Posted by BeansBeansBeans
Sadly for me and my partner, our parents all live a fair distance from Newcastle (Warrington in my case, Gothenburg and Toronto in my partner's), so we don't have that support network which can be so useful to parents.
In an ideal world, I would like my partner to by a stay-at-home mother, but sadly, after hours of calculations, it appears my salary won't stretch far enough to make that a possibility, and my partner will have to return to work part time in March. Even then, we still won't be able to afford 2 cars, a holiday or many of the trimmings.
We're just going to tighten our belts, and make do with what we can afford, like our parents did, until my career progresses to the stage where we can live on my salary (or Tony Sony signs my band(!)), rather than get into debt.