My husband wants to be my assistant and a stay at home dad. Should I take him up on the offer?

My husband (30m) and I (30f) have been together for 5 years and we have a 3 year old daughter and I’m currently pregnant with our son. He is highly educated (he has a masters degree plus an industry qualification which is equivalent to a PhD) he had a good job with a good income which he resigned from to move to my state as we were previously long-distance. He has the potential to earn 150-200k a year. However he hates his chosen career path (high stress, competitive, emotionally unfulfilling). He loves taking care of me (cooking for me, doing little tasks and chores for me, giving me massages) and spending time with our daughter (he’s a great dad). He also told me (after some apprehension) that he has always wanted to be a stay at home dad. His words (paraphrasing) “I love seeing you happy, and doing things for you, it gives me an almost spiritual level of fulfilment”

After my daughter was born, I left my office job to become a bit of a mompreneur. My business is making modest profits but not enough to sustain our current lifestyle . My husband has been incredibly supportive amd encouraging and he thinks that my business has the potential to be huge, He takes care of the finance / legal side of things. He wants me to give me a couple of years to fully focus on my business (as in 50 plus hours a week) to build it up while he takes care of everything else. If it works out, he wants to be a full time stay at home dad permanently. If it doesn’t work out, he said he will go back to work to support the family. We have savings (liquidated investments) to live on for two years.

I think it’s amazing that he wants to take a chance on me, but it’s a huge responsibility . Two years is a big gap in his career, and we both come from very traditional families (both our mothers were SAHMs), so I don’t know how this our change our relationship dynamic. My business was a fun side project, I’m also nervous about depending on it for income. On the other hand, it will be good to have him around full time to help with the newborn baby, I work from home as well, so it will be good to spend more time with him

Tl;dr my husband wants to take a break from his successful career to be a stay at home dad. Will this be good for our marriage and future?

Submitted June 16, 2019 at 04:51PM by EmptyKale http://bit.ly/2wW1wKj