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[quote=Anonymous]Dh is a hands on dad, but he also doesn't feel like he's ON all the time like I am. And he travels for work about as much as yours does. He just comes and goes on those work trips, and if take a night or two with my sister or a friend it's so many more moving parts we need to adjust for.

Part of it is just our personalities - I'm a planner, organizer, and instinctively maternal. And he generally is more fly by the seat of your pants "we'll figure it out" type. And his parents were very hand off and slightly selfish while my parents were alllll about hands on parenting (pros and cons on both sides, and of course there's a happy medium to figure out).

Now that our kids are older (9 and 12) it's gotten a lot easier because they can get themselves home from school alone and be home for a bit without us. The older one has a phone and can help coordinate his own ride somewhere if needed. So it's also partially the phase that youre in, and that will pass.

I really do think a lot of it is instinct where moms feel the need to really take on the role while even great dads approach it differently. [/quote]

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