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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks, you guys. That's just what I needed to hear (minus the part about my marriage being on the fast track to divorce court  :? :wink: ). I guess I just wanted reassurance that my opinion is valid before I made a big deal over it. I think you're right about getting counseling; we definitely shouldn't wait until we're both completely exhausted and resenting each other to work on our issues. I just wasn't sure if this was normal or something that everybody else was experiencing and I was just being a wuss. I know that he's trying to support our family the best way he knows how, but I think that he doesn't really realize that you HAVE to say no at some point, and that point is BEFORE 9:30 PM! As women, I feel like it's not easy but fairly clear-cut ("I'm leaving at 5:29 sharp because the nanny is going to leave and I have to breastfeed") but unfortunately, employers don't always understand that men with babies also have parental responsibilities that require them to leave work at a decent hour. Sigh...this sure ain't Sweden. 
I think I'm going to set up a weekly lunchtime therapy session for us near his work so we can talk about some of this stuff. It may be that the workload just is what it is for now, and I can definitely ride it out, as long as I know that this is not going to go on indefinitely. Having been raised by a single mom and a workaholic dad, I'm really sensitive to the long-term consequences that getting into this pattern can have on a family.[/quote]

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