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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Set a schedule. Each parent gets one weeknight out  with friends after the kids are asleep. For example, you get Tues nights and he gets Thurs nights after 8 PM.  Maybe schedule a weekend morning or afternoon off for each of you if that's feasible. One person gets Sat. morning off and the other gets Sun. morning. The rest of the weekend should be family time unless there's a special occasion. [/quote]

+1.  I think the first step is some sort of schedule where you get to have an interest/hobby/free time.  I think he needs one night a week where he does it all with the kids including bedtime and maybe another where you split up the bedtime duties and he goes out afterwards and vice versa.  It's important for him to bond with the children and have time he is 100% responsible while they are awake and you are not there. Have at least one night a week that is a family tradition like Friday night pizza and let DH come up with the tradition or something he remembers fondly about weekends when he was a child.

As for family walks and doing activities outside the home as a family, our ideas are different.  We will go as a family to support the kids at local athletic events, go to school events as a family, and go out to dinner as a family.  Other than that it tends to be one us comes up with an idea for self and kids.  We discuss it so there isn't a schedule conflict and the other can join or not join.  I think I went a lot more when they were younger for the bathroom aspect.  I might pick a play at Imagination stage, the Children's Library, or the park.  He would take the kids out to breakfast, sporting events (though he does that one at a time) or with him on errands.   [/quote]

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