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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could be me. I have a second. [b]It sucks for now. [/b]My first is a very difficult child, which probably doesn't help[/quote]

But when does it stop sucking?[/quote]

I don't know. Maybe when the youngest I'm kindergarten it gets a lot better usually? That is when it got better for number 1 (also o remember thinking that age 3 was a milestone too).. But honestly my oldest is so difficult and takes so much out of me, it sucks much of the time still. Of course love him etc, but we.are enmeshed in a lot of therapy, appointments, etc and both work full-time. And those issues got worse after kid 2 came along.

When I hear older people lamenting that they now have empty nests, I can't explain how jealous I get. They have kids they love/miss and who love them, they can see the children, enjoy the emotional support aspects of parenting etc, and they don't have to be constantly worried about the minutia of life with kids living at home.

Sleeping consistently through the night and being able to exercise again were big for me. But due to logistics, this took a long time.[/quote]

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