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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This all makes me sad.  No one on here sounds like they enjoy their kids.  [/quote]

I'm a PP in a similar situation to OP.  I adore my kids.  I love spending time with them.  But I literally have no downtime.  At all.  I'm either on at work, or I'm on as a parent.  100% full throttle from the time I get out of bed until the time I can finally close my eyes at night, 7 days a week.  My kids are little, so they're still highly dependent.  My DH practically refuses to participate, except for token outings to keep up appearances.
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This. I almost could have written the original post. I'm lucky enough to have a very involved DH, but our kids (2 and 4.5) are so high energy, even when we managed to give each other breaks, it's maybe 1 hour tops on weekends and we switch off putting to bed in the evenings. Morning rush to preschool, the slog of busy work with several meetings throughout the week, dinnertime is always a nightmare... and we use educational tv liberally. We try to take our kids out to the playground and the pool, and we're just... so tired. We're beat. We're both depressed and anxious and we adore our kids. But there is almost no time to think for ourselves and no one else.

No one could have predicted this type of full-time working parenting in a pandemic with small children who need to be watched 24/7, let alone it going on 18mo.[/quote]

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