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Originally Posted by Sliver
That's hyperbole? You can't be serious. So what, at 7:30 you and the wife can go out for dinner and a late movie? As if. Kids require your presence (at the least) 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
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Yes, it's hyperbole. Yes, you need to be present. No, you do not have to actively have to be looking after them. There's plenty of time at night to take it easy, enjoy a hobby, have a night out with the girlfriends while the husband stays home. There are opportunities to get a babysitter and spend the night out with the husband. In fact, it's my opinion that if you aren't spending alone time with your husband away from the kids than I can completely understand why this has been such a terrible situation for you.
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I don't think you understand that word. My daughter is 4.5 and my son turns three on Sunday. Last Sunday was the first time my kids have stayed over at a relative or friend's house without either parent in their whole lives. That's the first night my wife and I had off together where we could go home to our empty house in the 1642 days since my daughter was born.
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That's not what you originally said, though. You were talking about looking after your kid non-stop for thousands of days in a row 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You're telling me that in all the time of your kid's lives you and your husband have never gotten out of the house? Of course not. Now you lay down the condition that you haven't had an overnighter without the kids. Even so, why not? If it was important to you to get away from the kids for a night, why wait 4 and a half years? There's always an option. Shucks, I flew 3 hours at one point to drop the kids off at the parents so that the wife and I could take a 3 day vacation in a cabin with just the two of us.