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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why did your husband quit his job?[/quote]

Yeah OP did bury the lede there. What man who is not retirement age quits without another job lined up??[/quote]

I'm not the OP, but I also questioned OP about this earlier in the thread.

I'm going to guess it's because he was about to be fired, but they (his employer) allowed him to "quit" to save face.   Based on how OP has described him, would YOU want this man working for you?   [/quote]

Wow, that's unkind. I'm the OP - it is because his employer didn't offer parental leave for men and he wanted to take time off with our baby. That, combined with other things that weren't working for him at his job and our ability to (pre-COVID) get by on my one salary. Women do this all the time, why does it make my husband a slacker about to get fired? Geez.[/quote]

DP. It's not unkind. Your husband is a slacker. 
My DH works 40 hours a week, and I am mostly home (pick up contracts here and there) and he gets much more support from me than you get from your husband.

You should have 10 uninterrupted work hours atleast 5 days a week( say 8am -6:00 pm, then back to work around 8pm -11:00 while kids are sleeping) - you can move the days around to accomodate his appointments. That's 13 hours, 5 days a week. 
You can fit any remaining hours into 2 "lighter days"  a week. You can schedule daytime blocks of time with the kids on your light days so DH takes a break.

You can spend an hour with the kids in the morning on those heavy days (say 7:00am-8:00am). He should be able to make breakfast, lunch, dinner on your 5 heavy days while he has the kids. You should join for dinner and help with clean up/putting kids to bed/play with kids at night. That's it for your contribution on those 5  uninterruped days.

You could outsource housecleaning and laundry every single week. Other than that, your DH sucks.

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