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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think it may depend in part on what SN your child has. We are dealing with severe emotional/behavioral/self-regulatory issues and it is so draining. When you have a child who is constantly defiant, screams at you, says awful things and is sometimes destructive or lashes out by hitting, throwing, spitting, etc. - when you deal with this on a near daily basis, then it makes it harder for you to attend to the sort of day-to-day issues a real marriage/partnership requires, because you're just exhausted. Once our DC has gone to bed at night we're often too frazzled to do anything but vegetate in front of a screen or book, and communication can suffer. We haven't had any kid of fight or tense discussion in years, but that is not necessarily a good thing. I think it's more that we've put those tensions on the back burner in order to deal with the fire in front of us. (Bad metaphor, I know, sorry.) [/quote]
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