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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - YOU deal with them by saying, "this is what I and my family would like to do ... " and you state YOUR schedule. You don't make this about your wife.

And if you need to, you spilt up your time, and YOU go alone on some activities.

Stop thinking you have to "explain your wife"[/quote]

I agree with this with a slight twist.   Explain your wife doesn't feel comfortable.  The end.  Then you absorb the comments and pushback.

I had horrible anxiety for a full year after my first was born and I continued to push myself and do things and travel but all of it was miserable.  And I am normally an extrovert and love traveling.  When I had my second, I proactively just didn't do things where I knew I would be forcing it and just miserable.  I knew it was a short period of time and it passed.

My husband during this time period saw that I wasn't myself and continued to try to support me and I tear up just sitting here thinking about it.  He had my back and he just tried to help and he repeatedly kept saying to me, very kindly, that I didn't seem like myself and we worked together to try to get me back to a better place.  You sound like a good one OP.  You guys will be ok.[/quote]

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