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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're the MB, what makes you think you'll ever find out about your grope-the-help, husband? I know of several nannies who politely made up another excuse for leaving you. Some nannies would rather not be part of that kind of drama, especially if she lives with you.[/quote]

Well, there is not much I can do about if you don't say anything.

Believe me, I do appreciate that the situation is awkward and that you have been done a great wrong if this ever takes place. But one cannot operate on the assumption that all men are going to take liberties.

Also, the OP's suggestion just is not practical. As it stands in our house, my husband does much of the supervision of our child, and telecommutes, while we have childcare help. There is no conceivable way I can be there all the time, or even most of the time. The OP's suggestion assumes a world in which men are mostly absent from the home, and women supervise all household activities. This just isn't the case anymore.
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Is it a high school teen who requires constant supervision? A nanny certainly doesn't need/want a parent to supervise her. It simply is a risk that most people fail to consider. Even when husbands are having affairs openly, many wives prefer to pretend it isn't happening. It's often easier to ignore the obvious.[/quote]

I think my post was not clear. He doesn't supervise the nanny. He watches our child, except when he is telecommuting. Our nanny is covers for him while he telecommutes.

Husband is in vicinity, so has some idea of what is going on, but he is not "supervising." He is in the same house and has some idea what is going on, or might ask how things are going. The same as any MB in the same house would do, I imagine.

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