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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]15:41
Sounds like you’ve identified the things in your life that need to change. You set your a life totally dependent on 2 incomes & away from all family. Sounds like choices have consequences...[/quote]

I am so glad you are so rich and smug![/quote]
On the contrary. We made tough choices to manage the needs of our family. Walked away from many things we felt entitled to, so we could accept 100% responsibility for our kids 100% of the time. 
If we made more $$, we’d have more kids. If I’d stayed in a high demand job- we’d have fewer kids ect. If we lived closer to family, that would have played in too. And smug, no. Just tired of parents blaming their work/life balance on no one picking up more of the ‘life’. [/quote]

So when it’s not a pandemic, you sit at home doing nothing.... [/quote]
Nope. Like I said earlier, I work. But I work a job that isn’t high paying or incredibly demanding. By choice. We had to move when our family made that choice. We gave up lots of things when I made that choice. We stopped having kids when I made that choice. We don’t panic every time the nurse calls from school, or the car pool is late, or after care closes. 
The amount of stress parents put on outsourcing everything- so they can work more is astonishing. [/quote]

I work too, because I CHOOSE too. We would be fine on my husbands I come alone but I like the challenge of my job, recognition and making my own money and being a role model.  And I hate being trapped at home.  Any parent who tells you this time with their is “special” or they are enjoying the extra snuggle time are lying.   Only a brain dead person wants to spend 24/7 with their family.[/quote]

Wow. I was with you until the last couple lines.  Being at home without our normal activities like the park, pool, library, going out to a restaurant or farmers market or community event as a family makes it hard.  But I wouldn't say people are lying or brain dead because they are enjoying the extra time with their kids.  There are moments it is hard, days I fall asleep within minutes of my kids, days a trade with my spouse and hide out for a bit. But I am also enjoying the extra time with my family. I love our slower mornings and evenings and yep the extra cuddles (most of the time).  
I think you can be stressed and/or struggling at times and also enjoying the extra moments I get by being with my family 24/6 right now without being brain dead. 
Just because your experience is different doesn't mean others is less than or false. Goodness.[/quote]

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