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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should he work if you won’t?[/quote]

OP here - my view is, why should I do everything I do now plus a job? I would be insane to agree to that. He’s not going to magically do half. [/quote]

I’m in a similar situation. 
I get up at 5:45 and make lunches and breakfasts and do dishes and laundry and send the kids off to school. DH either sleeps in or gets up around 7:30 to go on a walk until his work starts. I then grocery shop, run errands, and clean the house. Sometimes I start prepping any food for lunches/dinner. I usually have a 2 hour break before my first kid comes home from school. He has ADHD and needs help structuring his homework and studying. Then the other kid gets home and I take him outside. Then I make dinner and clean up.

My husband does nothing. Sometimes I travel to see my family on the other coast and while I am gone kids get food at school and junk food at night and spend literally every hour they are home on video games.

I fully understand that there are single moms who do everything AND work,  and probably also married moms who do everything. I just really don’t want to. [/quote]

If you grocery shop and clean the house daily, you need better time management and shopping skills.

Also,  your kids need to start doing some of these chores.  It was life-changing when my kids began doing their own laundry and doing dishes/unloading dishwasher, and all kinds of other things.  You aren't doing their future spouses any favors by not having them lift a finger.[/quote]

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