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Originally Posted by V
The solution to the problem actually is pretty simple. The husband should be more than willing to take over the interaction with the kids at some point of the day so that the wife can catch up for a minute and have a breather. I generally get home around supper time, so after we have supper I take over the kids until they go to bed. She has a chance to catch up on some stuff and then has the chance to spend some me time in the evening.
Our kids are 6, 3.5 and 1.
The other simple solution to this problem is that a couple times a week the mom should be experiencing some interaction with other adults.
Yet there are plenty of avenues for her to stay sane. It's not the miserable existence you're portraying here.
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Even more so, a great many husbands need to realize that the work of running a house needs to be a lot closer to a 50/50 split than it is. I’m amazed when I hear about other households where the husband doesn’t cook, doesn’t wash floors or vacuum, etc. I can sympathize with any miserable housewife when she inevitably realizes that she’s putting in more hours of labour a day running the house, plus lacks the social interaction of the workplace for 8 hours a day, of her 9-5 working husband.
Running a household with kids (mine are the same age spread as yours) is a full time job in and of itself. There’s no way I could reasonably expect to come home to a perfectly clean house, clean kids, folded laundry, and a cooked meal, that’s like a 12 hour work day right there.