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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you work, OP?

I'm trying to imagine a scenario where you would have the need for an emergency phone call more than maybe once a month, if even that?

Can you give examples of things you think are important?[/quote]

Practice is cancelled
Your mother went into a fib again, she went to the hospital… I’ll go I know youre busy
Joe has a fever, can you go get him I’m presenting at the conference today
Can you take Rob to surgery they changed the time, I have something that am… I can stay home the next 2 days with him, if not I need to get someone to cover today!
Out of surgery 
The cars is ready, Uber to it I won’t be picking you up

These are texts I got in the past 10 days from my H.
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Frankly your whole family seems bizarrely unhealthy. But I assume you and your husband know that and are on phone/text standby constantly for crises and emergencies. [/quote]

Well there are 35 of us so…

Life happens.

Your job and you are not as important as you think you are.[/quote]

You have 33 kids? Or 29 kids plus your four parents?

I mean, come on. I don't need to be interrupted at work because Great Aunt Sally went to the hospital in Des Moines. There's nothing I'm going to do about that emergently, so that can wait until I'm done with work.

If I text my husband, he can respond whenever he wants. If I need him urgently like the water heater exploded and the house is flooding, then I'll call him. When he's in a SCIF I'm just out of luck and have to be an adult and make things work on my own.

I have a "real" job but if my kid broke their arm and my husband was unreachable I could totally just stop my job to go take care of my child, even if it meant missing a conference or rescheduling a large meeting. However, that doesn't mean I need to stop doing my job if my husband texts to ask me if I can take the dog to the vet next week. We can discuss that in a few hours.

OP, you sound exhausting. As do you, PP, with the 35-member family of unending issues. [/quote]

5 in our family
4 grandparents 
I have 4 siblings each married they each have 3 kids
My H has 3 sibling 2 children each

Yes I help my siblings and my H helps his siblings.

The vet and dr’s offices close at 5 so actually sometime I have to text during the day to make someone can cover the appointment.

If you wait until that night to discuss  (lol not sure discussion is needed a text will suffice) and call back the next day the appointment will be gone.[/quote]

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