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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. My DH normally teleworks and travels 2x a month. He’s obviously not traveling now, but he’s starting much earlier in the day than he used to. They were also in the process of hiring someone to help him, and that’s now on hold. I’ve been trying to figure out why this feels harder than summer. We are over 4 weeks into our quarantine, and we’ve had 2 weeks of online learning. The online stuff is challenging to get done. My autistic son does not want to work at home. He is smart, but extremely strong willed. He’s also missing all of the therapies he receives at school (OT, PT, ST). In the summer, he only has 4 weeks off of school & camp, and those are broken up... and we’re going to extra private therapies during those breaks. While he’s at camp, I am out with the other boys doing normal warm weather things, plus the library, museums, playdates etc. I did not choose the SAHM life, and it’s tough financially, but I couldn’t keep my teaching job with therapies & specialist appointments. I love being around my boys, but all of this is stressful. My son has a team of people for a reason. Me replacing all of them on top of taking care of the others is just really hard. My husband is stressed as well, but any time I mention having some ‘me time’ to decompress, he says he doesn’t get any. We tag team bedtimes so each boy can get some one on one parent time. We’ve been muddling through the weekends, but I’ve been getting behind on housework, and then spend time trying to catch up. I don’t think DH is a bad father by any stretch, but I do feel like he could better manage his day to not work so many hours. He’s the only one in his office with young kids - the only other two dads have high school/college age kids and their wives still SAH.[/quote]

So what does DH do?? Sounds like sales or customer facing??[/quote]

Software sales. Most of his day is conference calls.[/quote]

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