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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]dad here, lawyer at midsize firm.  zero chance I am home in Vienna before 7:30pm.  and a few times a month, or more, I have board meetings, business development, etc.  When I was in biglaw it would have been impossible to get home before 9pm.

So let me know, and if the answer is what I expect, how do you explain to your family?[/quote]

No, we do not eat dinner with family during the week.  BigLaw x2.  We do not eat dinner as a family during the week except on very rare occasions.  We tried family breakfast for awhile, but once the kids had to be at the bus stop at 7:30 a.m., that stopped working.

There is nothing to "explain" to my family.  [b]This is how it is.  [/b][/quote]

No.  This is not "how it is."  This is your choice, BigLaw x2 was not ust dumped on you.

Not that you have to explain it if you don't feel that's necessary, but you are not a passive recipient of this life either.[/quote]

I didn't say this was dumped on me.  I said I don't have to explain anything because this is how it is - it being our family life.  The other thing, too, about the whole cat's in the cradle - my kids are both in competitive sports.  So even if we were home, the kids wouldn't be.  Believe it or not, there are 7 year olds who are at sports practice until 7:30 pm or later several nights a week and until 8:30 pm other nights during the week.  If this perfect life we're imagining here together means my kids cannot do their sports so we can all eat together, they would want zero part of that.  Every activity they do is self-directed, not pushed by us.  We talk a lot about balancing school work and sports, so someday this schedule could change when the homework load gets worse, but for now, they are having a blast and keeping their school work up.

If OP doesn't want that life for himself and his kids, ok.  But it doesn't mean those of us who don't eat dinner as a family have anything to "explain."[/quote]

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