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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question: what do you do with the six+ Hours when your kids are out of the house?  I can’t imagine having that much time for myself every day. I mean, any logistics/chores could all be done within three hours. And with no boss breathing down your neck.  I can see how your husband could be resentful. [/quote]

Not OP but it isn’t that much time.  Not OP, but I workout at a gym daily and between going there, taking a shower, running some errands, cleaning up areas of the house (I do a daily pick up plus deep clean parts on a weekly schedule), yard work, I bake our bread daily and cook meals from scratch and that is very time consuming too.  Six hours flies by.  [/quote]

:roll:  :roll: [/quote]

Oh good grief, she’s not saying showering is a duty, she’s saying it’s one of the things she does in those six hours.

I’m a SAHM of school age kids plus a preschooler and a baby. While it’s just me and the baby (and he naps) I: make tomorrow’s lunches, batch bake snacks, tidy and clean, do laundry, prep (or ideally make!) tonight’s dinner, take care of whatever bureaucracy needs done (much easier for me to be on hold with the DMV than DH), weed the garden, meal plan and order groceries, shower, deal with contractors for house issues. Sometimes I read a book. Obviously all these things could be done in the evenings or by someone I pay or not at all, depending, but all the little things being done during the day means DH can walk in the door to dinner and we can spend our weekends relaxing instead of doing errands. I imagine once all my kids are in school and I have more free time I will read more books, but having been the one who does all the wakeups, all the pandemic childcare, etc etc etc, I think of it as “making partner.”[/quote]

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