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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yup. Stressed about how to make a decision and anticipating spouse and I won’t agree (DC and I tend to agree).[/quote]

This is me, too!  DH has strong opinions and in my mind, those opinions have flimsy rationale.  So I fear we are heading for a lot more stress before May 1![/quote]

DP. IS your DH like mine? Not a very involved parent, but then feels guilty and decides that being "involved" is weighing in on major decisions (usually in opposition to something from me) without any research or much context on the kid (because does not spend much time with the kid). My DH was like "I don't think School X would be good for Kid." Did he visit School X? No. Talked to any students from School X? Has he even looked at School X's web page? No. Kid and I visited. He doesn't even know all the classes kid is taking right now. Gah. Drives me nuts![/quote]

Oh gosh.  I could have written this too.  My kids (twins) are just juniors but this has been the story of our parenting relationship for as long as we've been parents.  
I do the research, grunt work, appointments, meetings, front-facing time with the kids (which is exhausting because now as teens they question everything).  He comes in, gives a snap opinion and it's often the opposite because it's based on nothing. I do believe he means well but it's maddening.  MADDENING.   He's not an a$$ and he comes around an is open to learning but it's exhausting.

So pretty much the last step to any decision the kids have made (or we've made for the kids) is getting through this internal roadblock (their father).  As if the figuring out the outside world wasn't hard enough. 
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LOL last year DH was not involved at all except to go along on a few tours and then late in the process got this idea that DD should be looking more at urban schools vs. the rural schools she liked.  :roll:  That ship has sailed. She saw one urban option, hated it, and swore she would never go to college in a city (environmental science major who is happiest in the woods). She's happy at her small, middle-of-nowhere college.[/quote]

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