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[quote=Anonymous]OP people are being unkind. I will share my experience.

I was a SAHM with very closely spaced kids and a husband who worked at home. It was so hard. He would need quiet (hard with three babies) and play dates and whatnot were hard. While yes I had the “freedom” to run out if I had all three sleeping that....rarely happened and if I did I did it with the constant fear that a baby would wake up and bother him. Eventually I stopped leaving. He’d come out and make a big mess making lunch and leave it for me to clean up. His job was to work and mine was.....every single other thing. Vacuuming would annoy him. He had a dedicated office space- too.

We divorced and I now work from home. The kids are at school during the day or at camp or with a sitter. I juggle housework and work seamlessly and order what I need and we can be HAPPY and loud in our own home- it’s freedom.

That said I won’t ever forget how hard it is keeping kids happy and QUIET and engaged all day. It’s daunting and so much harder than me going in my office and focusing on JUST work is. I do well and I work hard but man whose days at home are thankless.

This is HARD. Don’t let people tell you you aren’t working- you are. And if your kids were in school and now they aren’t your world shifted as much as anyone else’s so don’t let people discount your feelings because you don’t get paid. If anything that makes the difficulty harder to swallow.

Hang in there OP you will get through this. Use tv take walks be outside as much as you safely can. Chin up.[/quote]

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