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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with the posters who think it's weird to have a schedule and split the time so rigidly and discuss time spent with your kid as 'child care'.  Having said that, I totally understand the need to have 'me' time.  In our household, we simply ask when the opportunity arises if the other minds handling dinner/bedtime alone, or a morning/afternoon alone so the other can go do whatever.

We also have some things that are recurring (book club, certain night out with friends, football, baseball, etc).  For those, they are listed on our calendar in the kitchen. For the non recurring ones, we'll just ask, and we don't keep such strict tabs on who had more time off one week or another, we just try to wing it.  I know there's been times one of us has felt like we were getting the shaft, but it seems to always even out, and I believe a schedule would be awful in our household.

Finally, I think both you and your DH need to accept the new reality that you have a kid and me time may not be as available, and there's lots of other things that need to get done.[/quote]

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