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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A woman would be excoriated if she came home from a girls’ trip too hungover and exhausted to deal with the kids. Tell him to suck it up. The trip is fine. But when it is over, it is over. [/quote]

Op - exactly this. I am totally on board with him taking a trip away. I encourage it and support him doing it. Do I think it sounds fun to get overly drunk for 3 days? No but whatever do what you want.

BUT when you get home you have to come back to reality and be present. It’s unfair to the spouse who is home with the kids. [/quote]

How about you each get 1-2 trips/year including 1 day for “re-entry” where you get to unpack and decompress from travel, and basically ease back into parenting at 50%. This applies to you as well even though you’re not coming back hungover. Then the next day it’s business as usual.

So let’s say you travel Fri-Sun, you get to rest Sun. night and take on a partial parenting load Monday. Tuesday is all hands on deck.

Neither DH nor I are big boozers, but we usually grant each other a little bit of re-entry/unpacking space right after a girls/guys trip.

Taking a long weekend and then the week off from parenting would not be ok to either of us. And not fair to the kids. [/quote]

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