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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are in school full time. I work 4 days a week and explicitly take Monday’s off (today) to do the exact chores you do not want to do.  This is because it benefits ALL of us.  By me doing all that I will do today, makes it so that the entire family can enjoy each other this week. I’ve already done all of the grocery shopping, all of the laundry (or at least what was left over from the weekend), I’m headed to Costco shortly, I’m working on meal prep for the entire week so dinners will take no more than 10min to assemble, and the house will be pretty much organized from top to bottom.

Frankly I do not see my abbreviated schedule as an opportunity for leisure, while my DH has to be at the office. I see it as an opportunity for our entire family to benefit from me powering through 8 hours of domestic work, so that all of us can have healthy meals, an organized home, and parents who get off work the rest of the week and can focus on family time, not running around stressed out.
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OP here - I understand that perspective.  DS is only 6mo and currently in childcare ~45-50 hours a week so this would specifically be to get him more time with a parent (fun with DS definitely but not leisure time).  During naps and things I'd do things that contributed to the household, not just sit around, but don't want to take on all the domestic work trying to cram it into the few hours of nap time the one day i'm home.  The thing I worry about isn't so much that I pick up any of the domestic work, but that the home front permanently becomes my job and that I'll always have to manage my career around the needs of it as opposed to we both have to make homelife and work work.[/quote]

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