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[quote=Anonymous]I am little confused about whether the child is griping about not being able to do stuff on her own terms or if she is unable to get supplies or if she is missing her mom. Sometimes these can be complicated things and it's hard to tell, even to the child. All are understandable for a 12 year old.

Look - you chose to have three kids and have a super demanding job and your partner made the same choices. I guess you're making it work/doing it all in the sense that you feel like you have a plan that should be tenable and makes your weekends free. But your kid(s) feel the brunt of that during the week and probably don't feel the same way you do. It sucks for them, somewhat similar in small ways to the way a kid might feel whose parent works 2 jobs and can't be there for them M-F.

That said, YOU have the ability to change your job in the foreseeable future (as does your DH) to put your kids first. Would this require some scheduling or lifestyle changes? - Maybe. Catastrophic or awful ones? - uh, no. If you don't want to put them first, then ok, don't. But realize you're choosing not to do that, and understand that they do or will come to understand that too some day.

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