After years of juggling full-time careers and raising two young children, Laura Price and her husband realised their household could not keep running as it was.
They tried part-time work, nannies and nurseries, before arriving at a new arrangement: as the higher earner, she would double down on her career, while he would give up paid work to become a stay-at-home dad.
“We made the decision together,” says Price, a partner at London PR agency Pagefield and chief executive of the Belonging Forum, a charity tackling loneliness. “It was clear to both of us that I was more career-driven.”
But what looked like a pragmatic, beneficial arrangement on paper proved harder to live with in practice.
“I still tried to do everything I’d always done,” Price says. “I was rushing to make breakfasts, laying out clothes, staying the main point of contact for the school . . . I couldn’t let go.”
