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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm so confused by posts like these. Was there really no inkling that your husband was going to be like this?   [/quote]

I am too-- I vetted young men very hard for this when dating. Any trouble with motivation, executive functioning, desire to be an active parent, laziness about chores, irresponsibility or unreliability or entitlement to women's caregiving and they were dropped like a stone.[/quote]

This. I mean yes of course there are guys who probably did a complete 180 but I find it hard to believe there weren't glaring red flags for most of these guys. Like the guy who let his kid stay in the same clothes for 5 days straight. [/quote]

The 180 is rare unless they're cheating. It does sometimes happen that they have depression or some other health problem and refuse to do anything about it. Or that they are punishing their wife for some real or perceived injustice by treating the kids badly. Or that they have more kids than they wanted or can handle, or they agreed to just one more kid and it turns out to be really high maintenance or twins.[/quote]

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