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[quote=Anonymous]If you husband is overseas or deployed for months at a time (not years thankfully for me) what is your role with the inlaws? I'm holding down the fort here, working full time and am acting for two parents for my toddler (almost 3) and baby (1). I'm doing a great job, but I'm barely hanging on. I feel a lot of pressure to be "on" whenever my kids are awake. I have a lot of activities planned for us and weekends especially are my times to get together with other moms who I feel help me cope.

My parents are cross country but I talk to them daily and DD facetimes them a couple of times a week. It helps me not be so lonely when I have another adult to talk to in my day. My inlaws are 2 hours away and I haven't heard from them in about 5 weeks now. They don't text, call or visit. I've heard from my SIL that they're upset with this arrangement. I'd put my toddler on the phone to facetime, but she's not good at it and doesn't really respond and hangs up frequently. As soon as DH returns they want us to visit them, but that's the last thing we want to do (DH included). I'm somewhat bitter they haven't visited us at all when he's gone, so I don't see why I owe them anything.

What are other people doing? How do you manage two family sides by yourself? [/quote]

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