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[quote=Anonymous]Same girl same.

DH is doing his own projects instead of watching our kids. There's so much crying and screaming (the kids screaming and tantruming, not dh) daily that it's hard for me to work. My work is way crazier than normal. I'm constantly having to come help and soothe kids. I also have to nurse the baby every 3 hours (which is terrible because now it's all zoom meetings constantly). I just don't get why he can't get his shit together- this is an 8 week paid vacation for him!!! I get that our kids are at such difficult ages but step up already. I end up doing 50% of their care during the day and then having to work until midnight. And after my work is over at 5:30, he's done. He says I have the kids for the rest of the night and have to do bedtime routine, which takes hours.

I think a lot of this stems from the fact that I always downplayed my job. It's stressful and I do bring home 45% of the income. I make 155k. But everyone has always acted like mine was the fun money. I had one telework day every other week and I did abuse it before. I'd run laundry and have dinner ready by the time everyone got home. I think DH thought I could do that full time though and I absolutely can't. I used to make up those hours later in the week by working harder. When my 2nd child was born recently, both my parents and my inlaws asked why I don't just quit my job because daycare was like 35k a year. Pretty sure they thought I didn't make much more than that. I have a master's degree and 5 employees...[/quote]

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