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[quote=Anonymous]We don't have a "curfew" per se but we ask her to think about how much sleep she needs to be able to do her job well in the morning and to make sure she comes home in time to get that much sleep on a work night. If she wakes us coming in or we notice that she is oversleeping, not able to function, etc, then we pointedly reserve the right to instatute a curfew as needed.  On weekends, we ask her to let us know if she is not coming home so we can set the alarm when we go to bed and also so that we don't worry about her.  We do have a car curfew (midnight) on all nights.

As for what to expect - we've had an AP that NEVER went out almost the entire year and another who went out every single night and was gone the entire weekend every weekend.  Most were somewhere in between.  You either have to decide you don't care, or talk to her about it up front and let her know what your limits are.  I really felt like the daily go-er-outer was not even remotely part of the family.  She never joined us for family outings on the weekend, friday night dinners out, even skipped the kids birthday parties.  In the end, none of us even seemed to notice she was gone.  Sort of sad...[/quote]

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