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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe I just have an awesome DH? He earns just barely seven figures, and I also make a respectable $200k. He does bedtime and morning routine every day with our preschooler and I handle the baby. He does minor repairs around the house. He spends a large chunk of the weekends with the kids and also lets me sleep in weekend mornings since I’m doing the night feedings. He is not a good cook so I handle that. But he loads/unloads the dishwasher or throws in laundry whenever he sees the need. We do have a nanny who helps with housework during the week. And we lean on family to get a break.

What you are describing sounds pretty terrible and a bad example to set for the kids, OP.[/quote]

Op here. Dh does help clean up after dinner and take out the trash.

Does it matter how much he earns?
Would it make a difference if he earned 200k or 500k?

I’m often resentful but I know he is busy. If I ask him to do something, he often doesn’t do it so it is almost better not to ask him at all. When he is home, I get frustrated since he doesn’t know the routine and instead disrupts the routine. [/quote]

So he spends time with the kids when he can, he helps clean up after dinner and takes out the trash, and you get frustrated with him when he "disrupts the routine"?  But he's supposed to do more (as long as he does it your way, and presumably while still earning "just barely seven figures")?  He earns a million bucks a year -- hire a housecleaner and a nanny.  [/quote]

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