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[quote=Anonymous]How does one of you "prepare school lunches" and the other "pack school lunches"?  And one creates and places the grocery order but the other picks it up?  I think this is unneccesarily complicated.  I would put the cleaners on a schedule, move groceries entirely to Spouse B, and call it square.

I feel like this was written to make us feel sorry for Spouse B, but I personally make more money than my spouse while working from home and handle the finances/investing, but I don't consider those things as mentally/emotionally taxing as dealing with kid and holiday stuff.  But of course if holiday stuff is overwhelming you can decide to cut back.

If you have a lot of afterschool shuttling and weekend shuttling, it's possible you've just put your kids in too many activities.  And I don't actually understand how you're each handling weekend/afterschool stuff solo without dividing and conquering with 2 kids in presumably different activities.  It's also not clear to me when/if you do things as a family, since everything is written as Spouse A "with minimal support" and Spouse B "with minimal support."[/quote]

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