Glad that worked out for you my story is the same. But there are pros and cons to both. I think we forged the way for it not to matter if you have a kid at 25 or even younger. It is not the career killer it once was if that's your thing. I will say for me, I wish I had stayed home. The chaos of two people working in high stress jobs has made our home life more stressful than it had to be. And I don't really think we are financially better off for it TBH.

My secretary/assistant at one job had her kids right out of high school. On her fortieth she and her husband were going on a cruise. I asked, "Are the kids going?" She said, no, so I said, "whose watching them?" She said, "well they are 22 and 20 so hopefully they can take care of themselves." We no longer work together but it looks like she's spent the last 20 years living it up and traveling with her High School Sweetheart while they are both still able bodied. And she's been working at a company with great benefits for over 25 years now, so I suspect she's in pretty good financial shape too.

It's all good.