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[quote=Anonymous]OP here again.   Appreciate the replies.  Very good thoughts

I am willing to accept not managing expectations properly and extending her help too long.  The confounding thing is, she was always saying "you don't let me do enough" and we were like "making dinner and keeping bottles full and occasionally being extra hands when needed is plenty...I know this is like 1/3 of a job but we really appreciate your help".  At the same time as saying she wasn't doing enough, she was telling friends for weeks she was "exhausted". And last weekend after the storm we had, I drove her back home and cleared their drive so my dad could keep heart -healthy.  She was saying how it takes 2 days to recover her strength after visits.  I said "take a few weeks off.  It'll be ok".  But back here she was the next week, and....boom.

I had always said our plan was to transition to having a morning sitter help once the new girls were sleeping all night and things settled.  Ironically they started sleeping 8 hours just 2 nights ago, and I was able to find that AM sitter the day she snapped.  Week late I guess...[/quote]

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