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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think DH is disappointed that I don't cook dinner as part of the SAH gig. I hate meal planning and cooking. DS is 12 mos. He eats simple, decinstructed meals. I eat whatever is around. Cheese and crackers for lunch if I want. I have no expectation that DH produce dinner for me. I didn't have that expectation when we were both working, either.  I don't have a bunch of school-aged kids where we all need to sit around as a family. I really hate this expectation that I'm supposed to prepare food for a grown man now that [b]my job is raising our child[/b].  I was thinking of cooking tonight-we have this bag of potatos on the counter. If it were just me, I'd have a baked potato and a Diet Coke. But since I'm cooking for a "family" I have to produce something more ambitious - a baked potato "bar" or whatever. No thanks. I'm want to cook what I want to eat and not cater to what DH likes. Today he came home and asked what I made-I told him "nothing", and he went to the grocery store after working all day, and I don't really care. [/quote]

Your job is running the household. I'm not sure where you got this idea that staying home meant you're essentially a nanny. The job description is a lot more comprehensive than just child care.[/quote]

See, that's interesting to me pp. I think my job is to care for our child and his needs during the week, and running the household is our shared responsibility, as is taking care of our child on the weekends.  To the other pp, I'm not a shitty mom, I'm actually an amazing mom! I agree it's not "hard"- my office job wasn't "hard" either...I was good at it and enjoyed it. I'm good at taking care of our son and enjoy that too! It's not "hard" work, but it is time consuming work that requires a lot of my energy and attention. (I have to be honest, I spent the day yesterday with a mom of two kids under three and that seems like HARD work!) [/quote]

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