Who is responsible for getting a babysitter?
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Anonymous
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Talk about first world problems.
Even w a full career I am the one who ends up booking the sitters- not my DH. You seem petty. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| OP - in the time it took you to write out this question you could have booked the sitter. |
Anonymous
| OP, in your shoes I'd do it as long as DH gives you enough heads up about travel. But really, if he's traveling for work and drops the ball on getting a sitter, you'd have to either scramble to find one or skip your volunteer gig that night. So might be just as easy for you to handle the sitters, and let DH handle something you don't like to do. |
Anonymous
| You should find the sitter because you will do a much better job at it than him. |
Anonymous
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I'm a SAHM and think you are responsible. DH has a relatively predictable schedule. I have evening plans once or twice a month. I put them on his calendar about a month in advance. If he has a work conflict, I call our 2-3 sitters and if they are unavailable, I move my plans.
I am part of the PTA board and we had a board meeting this week. It was on our calendar for 2 months. DH got invited to a dinner with work colleagues but it wasn't mandatory. I texted our teenage sitter. She was unavailable. DH said he wouldn't go to his dinner. Then on the day of, he says he has a dinner. I blew up at him because he said he wasn't going the day prior. He called our old nanny and she was available. If she wasn't available, DH would have stayed home with the kids. That is different than work travel though. It was a semi social dinner with work colleagues. It was a networking opportunity but they come up often and it isn't a big deal if he doesn't go to all of them. |