“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You work at home. You are reacting, and have been, to some of your mother’s attitudes toward men who work at home, so you try to prove to yourself and others that this is really not only as difficult as outside work, but more so. If people might think you have little to do all day because they do not see you going to a job, then you can show that you have even less time to yourself than others.

If you are with friends, either of you, and someone, for example Bill Gallagher, says that he envies you for being able to work at home and be free, neither of you ever say “It’s terrific—just what we wanted,” or some such.

Instead you immediately say something like “It would be great to work just so many hours a day and come home and be free.” Or you emphasize how busy you really are, and how little time you really have—so if it seems that you do not have enough time that is hardly surprising: you have given yourselves such suggestions for years.