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[quote=Anonymous]I;d want DH to scale travel way back, 1 week every 3 months instead of every month- honestly I think it gets REALLY easy to neglect a marriage with this much come and go if you have kids. If you have no kids, or shoot, even 1 kid that is a bit older then there is more time to put in- but the kids are going to suck away all available time that travel doesn't for the 2 of you, so I think one of you needs to do less travel- which doesn't need to be OP- it can totally be DH!

I think I would feel burned out after 1-2 years max on this schedule.

To the "c-suite mom" up post- look I get what you are trying to say, I agree with much of it. But I also think its shitty to say that you feel like your "highest calling" is a joke if its carting your kids to practice. You sound really out of touch like many in the c- suite. The vast majority of people don't define themselves by their jobs, they just do what they have to do to make a comfortable life for themselves or to survive, or just like work "enough" but know damn well that their impact or legacy or whatever when it comes to work is nothing different than tons of others. So, yeah, my legacy or highest achievement might be that I went to 99% of games or whatever I could for my kids because I don't harbor illusions that if I weren't there, my organization would be chugging along just the same. That doesn't make me pathetic, just saying.[/quote]

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