@Hanna, your post gives me hope for D2. She just graduated from law school last weekend (has another year though to get her MBA as part of a dual program). She has a tentative verbal offer from the firm she clerked for last summer, but isn’t counting on it yet and isn’t sure she would commit even if it were firm. But I know she does want children some day, and though she has a type A work ethic, she does sometimes cave under too much pressure. I would hate to see her caught up in something she didn’t feel she could get out of or feel that not wanting to get caught up in it makes her lesser in terms of value.
I don’t know what her future holds, but I hope it involves some kind of satisfying work/life balance.