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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you manage emotionally?

I just started a job at which I routinely work 70-80 hour weeks and I see my toddler only a couple of hours 2 or 3 days a week and then one day a weekend.  I am under contract for a year and am doing this to help us save for a downpayment and be able to maybe put something in a college fund for her.  People here are also well connected, so maybe I can get on someone's good side and they can use their connections to help me one day.  DH and I both come from generations of rural poverty and are the first to try to break out.

It makes sense for me to be here and my child will benefit.  But is so hard not seeing my baby, sleeping very little, and being tired all the time. For the moms who work long hours, whether at "top" jobs or because you have two regular jobs, what helps you feel better about not seeing your kids very much?  What coping mechanisms and family plans do you make to work around the job and still have quality (if low quantity) time?[/quote]

ALL moms work long hours - SAHM work the longest  of all.[/quote]

Da fuk you talking about?  First, this isn't even what this thread is about.  This is about a mom who clearly loves her child and is asking for support/advice on how to get through being away from her child while helping her family achieve financial stability.  Your commentary is unhelpful and makes me sad for your child who clearly spends all day around a horrible mother who lacks any empathy.  Too bad your child isn't in the care of someone loving and nurturing during the day like OP's child.

And last time I checked, working moms don't exactly "punch out" at the end of the work day.  There is still all the same dinner prep, bath, bed time, middle of the night nursing sessions, tending to various illnesses, etc. that make for long days as a SAHM.  It's not a competition so go pound sand PP.[/quote]

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