How does spousal support analysis work in a long-term relationship where the mother is a stay-at-home mother?

The Mother focusses heavily on the Father’s obligation to become self-sufficient. However, as the court held in Fisher v. Fisher, 2008 ONCA 11, 88 O.R. (3d) 241, at para. 55, in long-term marriages where one spouse had the traditional stay-at-home role, “the spousal support analysis typically will not give priority to self-sufficiency because it is an objective that simply cannot be attained.” Whether or not this will be considered one such relationship will be up to the trial judge, but it is premature to begin arguing on an interim basis that the Father should be self-sufficient four years after the separation on this conflicted record.