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Can you elaborate EXACTLY what is wrong with what you DH is doing?  You go into your office and keep working for your 10 hr stints.

What happens?  Do the kids go hungry?  Is the house on fire?  Are kids sticking forks in light sockets?

Yes when you are done working you will likely have to help out your DH, just like working DH come home and pitch in with a SAHM.

But let’s look at the deficits while DH is in charge concretely and try to shape those. [/quote]

I didn't say anything is WRONG or that I am not helping. I said I am overwhelmed.

I wake up at 6:30 so I can get a shower before the kids wake up. DH wants help from me at mealtimes so I AM helping and I do not "shut myself in my office" for 10 hour stints. I help with the kids from when they wake up until 8:30, then go to my office. I take breaks for nusing/pumping depending on how my calls are going that day. Usually in the morning is when the baby takes his "good" nap so DH will try to run necessary errands or go to his doctor's appointments then if possible. But the baby doesn't always take a good nap, or go down easy, or he wakes up early. I take a break for lunch instead of working through it because DH says that is a time he is overwhelmed with kid things and needs help. I stop work at 5:30 so DH can make dinner while I watch the kids. We eat. We put the kids to bed from 7-8 or 8:30. I log back on. I work until whenever I collapse out of exhaustion. I do it again the next day. For months and months and months. On the weekends, he wants a break from watching the kids all the time, so I try to give him that. I sneak in work during their naps and before they wake up and after they go to bed. I'm constantly falling behind at work despite feeling like all I do is work. I'm exhausted.[/quote]

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