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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, wow - thanks! Just read through the comments. 90% of these were really thoughtful and reassuring. It’s absolutely that I want more time with my kids and adore them. Our youngest is the easiest and it makes my heart hurt when she wants me instead of our nanny and I have to lock myself in my office. That being said - I do take off from 5-7:30 so I’m with them and make dinner every night, it’s more just the mental exhaustion and feeling while lying in bed at bedtime with them - crap, I need to finish this for X meeting by tomorrow at 8, and need to respond to this so let me think through now my recommendation. And oh, schedule a physical and run payroll for our nanny, and pick up dry cleaning, and it’s snack Saturday for the soccer game - and - is he making enough friends, how is our middle adjusting, etc etc, like so many of us!

Appreciate too that there is no right path, and that so many of us are in this situation !! Thanks all, and think it helps to look at it as - it’s all upside so I shouldn’t feel guilty for asking for ramp down for a few years. Think the achiever in me (and many of us maybe) just feels like it is letting work  down / wuss if out if you ask for flex.

Anyway - really just responding based on the final few comments — please don’t let this chain discourage anyone from having three! It’s crazy, but can’t imagine a life without all this love.[/quote]

That’s how my job was, and I just left it. My husband does a ton of child- and housework, too. It just takes so much to maintain a household. I was burned out from the switching back and forth. And as we WFH, kids don’t understand the here-but-not-here very well. If they can see or hear us, they think we’re “home”, regardless of who else is in the home watching them. And I can hear them, too. It’s super distracting.

I bet you’ll find a job that’s a better fit before long, or not, and that’s cool too![/quote]

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