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[quote=Anonymous]You're not being a jerk. It just comes along with this stage of life.

I used to roll my eyes when my sister wouldn't get a baby sitter so she could go out to dinner with me. I was annoyed that she wanted family dinners to be at an early 5pm so they could get the kids home and to bed after. I didn't understand why they didn't want to stay in the nicer (more expensive) hotel when we all went away together.

Aaaannnd..... now I insist on not going to a restaurant with the family any later than 6. I haven't had a proper date night out with a babysitter in almost a year. And we just planned a family vacation in a motel because daycare is friggin expensive and we can't afford the hotels we used to.

I get it. And I playfully begged my sister's forgiveness recently. I do my best to be flexible about schedules and things, but if the kids melt down after 7, the kids melt down after 7...can't really blame him for being tired. If the date night costs $60 before we even leave the house, there goes the nice restaurant I wanted to go to- I'm too tired to enjoy it half the time anyway. Just wait til your relatives have their first kid - they will be "perfect" FTMs and still not understand your ways - until they have toddlers or second children. And some will never have kids and will never understand or try to understand.

It's just life. It's ok to be frustrated. It's one of those times that you can remember to that you can't control how they are, only your reactions to them. Live your life and enjoy it and don't let them get you down.[/quote]

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