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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never had more time than living alone. Having a spouse and 2 kids is mayhem.

The kids make the things you mentioned impossible. I'm up an hour before them to get the day going. Then it's getting everyone together to get to work and daycare. Pick up kids from daycare after work, cook/have dinner, a little down time (like 30-60 minutes tops) which is spent with my kids, then it's baths and bed time routine for both of them. At this point, it is somewhere between 8 and 9, depending on how bedtime went and you haven't even cleaned up dinner or their lunch stuff. Now you can't leave your kids alone in the house, so you can't run any errands.

If you have practice or activities after daycare, push everything back another hour or 2.

It's a lot to do, which is how I dont understand how single parents do it every single day. I can handle it for a week, but a lot of routine chores don't happen. Things like a load of laundry goes in at 10p and I pass out and it sits wet until the next day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is your spouse doing during all this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was in reply to "when my wife's out of town for a week." And me talking about how i have no idea how single parents do it... So... not there. When she's home, the duties are split and it's manageable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I never had more time than living alone. Having a spouse and 2 kids is mayhem.

Sorry I got confused by this line.