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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You both are bitching about nothing and are really just complaining because you feel like you do more than the other.

Your kids will get older and you will realize that the earlier years are nothing but a blip on the radar.  Raising kids isn't something that happens the first year, or the first three or even the first five. It's lifetime event.  As your kids get older, the hands on physical stuff reduces and the real parenting begins.

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I really do question whether you have kids.  [b]The emotional connection for a child begins very early on.  [/b]OP wants to have a life that is family-focused starting from when the child is young, not when the child is older.  I see nothing wrong with that.

OP - it just sounds like you two have different ideas of parenting and priorities in life. That's tough.  Have you mentioned marriage counseling? [/quote]

Yes, but you are failing to understand that the emotional connection is there to begin with and is innate. It only becomes an issue when parents actively seek to destroy it through emotional abuse or neglect - as in neglected meaning not providing a home, food, shelter, child care, etc.  Going to the gym instead of hanging out with your 4 yr old isn't going to be enough to destroy an emotional connection.

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Studies disagree with you.  Love, support, emotional bonding, self reliance develop during the early years.  Through parental contact.  Babies brains are wired better and brighter the more skin contact they have with their parents.  They are not a blip but the formative years for which the entire life's foundation is built.  Kind of important.[/quote]

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