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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I don’t work 😬[/quote] I have a little bit of this dynamic at home and I don’t work. DH has an intense job and the minute he gets some opening he fills it up with something he is interested in. But if I want to do something without the kids I have to ask him if his calendar is open and sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. A few months ago I was going to the gym early in the morning, and right when I was headed out DH said he was going to the gym as well. When I told him that I didn’t want to leave our kids alone asleep, he said that they (10 and 7) would be fine. He thought I was being a martyr when I said I wasn’t going if he was. And yes, I know that the kids would likely be fine alone, but damn, men sure are good at getting their needs met! [/quote] I don’t blame either of you for wanting your marriage to be better, but at an aggregate level, enabling this kind of behavior is terrible for the working world. Many jobs don’t need to be so “intense” and are artificially that way to increase earning potential. So then you get the workaholic DH with a SAHM-who-babies-him dynamic and that is terrible for couples who want to get ahead professionally while maintaining work-life balance. [/quote]
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