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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I organize and plan pretty much everything for my family and it doesn’t bother me.  My husband and I work FT - he’s WAH, I’m WOH - about equal hours, but he makes three times what I do.  We have three kids and share most of the housework (just hired cleaners to come every two weeks), but I do all of the cooking and he does all of the laundry.  He does a lot of the hands on parenting while I am the one enrolling in camps, organizing birthday parties, planning vacations etc.  (and also staying on top of our finances).  I’m pretty Type A and a natural planner so it really doesn’t bother me and I don’t feel bogged down by it.  I guess it’s hard for me to understand why some people feel like it’s so intolerable - it’s just part of being an adult! You would have a mental load even if it were just you![/quote]

Yeah same. It does take some time, like maybe a couple hours a week, to think through and coordinate logistics? But I don't agonize over it. It's totally fine.[/quote]

I wish one of us was like you.  We are moving to a new city, and everything from arranging kids schools to getting the house updated to sell to getting the mortgage on the new house is falling on me.  Plus laundry and cooking and homework and parent teacher conferences and making sure everyone has pants and paper and sharpened pencils.  
It all feels overwhelming sometimes.  
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