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"A few brave readers have shared their true dating confessions, from &amp;quot;My ex made me pay more for toilet paper,&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;I say &amp;#x27;I love you&amp;#x27; way too much,&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m embarrassed by my boyfriend.&amp;quot; Today, a reader from Japan describes what it&amp;#x27;s like to be a stay-at-home wife. (No, not mom. Wife.) Hear her fascinating thoughts after the jump....Here&amp;#x27;s our reader&amp;#x27;s story.... I love chocolate, movies and traveling, but none are so important that I&amp;#x27;d not be able to live happily without it. However, there is one thing I love and prioritize: my stay-at-home lifestyle. I&amp;#x27;m very lucky that I don&amp;#x27;t have to worry about money right now. My husband works and I have some money saved up. So I stay at home during the day. I need time with myself during the day, so I can enjoy my evening hours with my husband. Being outside dealing with different people all day long makes me exhausted; home errands then become a huge burden, I don&amp;#x27;t get enough sleep, and life just easily falls apart for me. I recently read a CNN article saying that this trend is growing. &amp;quot;In the past few years, many women who are well educated and trained for career tracks have decided instead to stay at home,&amp;quot; said Dr. Scott Haltzman, author of The Secrets of Happily Married Women. Here&amp;#x27;s my typical day: AM prepare simple breakfast for both of us twice a week, I take a yoga class in the morning laundry check emails, write diary, read news online, chat with my friends lunch with friends PM: home errands like paying bills and cleaning watch my type of movies (my husband and I have totally different taste for movies, so I watch what I like by myself in the afternoon) 2 times a week, I take a yoga class in the afternoon Do I get bored? Oh yes, a lot. But I&amp;#x27;d rather be bored than take a full-time job. Well, I&amp;#x27;m not so sure....I do worry that I won&amp;#x27;t be up-to-date with what&amp;#x27;s happening outside the home, and I feel guilty that I&amp;#x27;m not a career women after all those years of education. But for now, this lifestyle is the right one for me. Dear readers, what do you think? If money were no object, would you want to stay at home, or would you continue to work no matter what? How would you fill your day if you didn&amp;#x27;t work? What would you want to be doing right now, for instance? Photo: IStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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