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[quote=Anonymous]Op, I’m wondering if you and your spouse feel guilty about going back to work and your kids are picking up on that. When they whine about you being gone so much, how do you respond? Like a pp said, you should validate their feelings, but I also wouldn’t bend over backwards to make them feel better about it, it might just be prolonging their “suffering.” The more you apologize and try to compensate, the more they’re going to feel like you truly are abandoning them even though it sounds like you’ve made it so you both have a very reasonable schedule so you can spend time with them. Kids want what they can’t have, and it’s a long long road of that ahead of you. The quicker they understand that, ultimately the happier they’ll be because they won’t always be pining after the things they can’t have. [/quote]
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