Reply to Is my wife being unrealistic about her expectations of my work life balance?

Forum Index » Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)

Reply to "Is my wife being unrealistic about her expectations of my work life balance?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven’t read the whole thread, but I feel like so many people skimmed this very important part in the original post

[quote] DW is still on maternity leave for another month with the 3 month old, while our four year olds preschool is a 5 min drive. [/quote]

If OPs DW is on mat leave, that means she has a job to go back to. In a month. And OP has had the benefit of having everyone home for 2 months. OPs DW is trying to make sure *before she goes back to work* that not all the work is going to fall on her when she does go back to work. Because things should be at their easiest now, but there seems to still be a lot of flex to OP. That shows that when things start to get tough, there is going to be more flex, and the DW is probably going to be the one making up the time. Yeah, I know some of you have super egalitarian relationships here, but the responses actually prove differently.

I see this DW. She says kid needs to be picked up at 410 - then already pushing it. Which means that eventually it will be kid needs to be picked up at 430, and the delays grow bigger, oh so DW, you’re already on your way home, can you pick them up? Death by papercuts. Next she’s called the martyr for doing everything because there’s no option, she’s lost herself and everyone hates her because she has a man who won’t. 
 [/quote]

I think you're reading a bit too much in here.  OP's wife was pissed that, for one day, she had to watch two kids by herself for 5 hours during the workday.  That's all this comes down to. Not some longer term prepping for going back to work manifesto. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics