By: Samantha

Samantha — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:26:25 +0000

This is so true! And doesn’t stop after the baby is born. My husband and I are pretty in sync mostly, but he’ll make some parenting call and I’ll go ‘what? Why would we do it that way? Shouldn’t we have talked about this?’. The trouble for me has been that with parenting, you don’t always know the questions ahead of time!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:33:50 +0000

You are so welcome Elle! So glad the conversation started on a good note! xx

By: elle hanson

elle hanson — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:46:21 +0000

Amy – thanks for the advice. As a full time working mom who is starting to anxiously contemplate cutting back quite a bit on work, this was exceptionally helpful. I consider myself a pretty “on top of it” person, but I had not even thought about having this as a specific conversation with my husband. I broached the subject this morning (I figured we might as well “ease” into it). To my surprise, actually, when I brought up expanding some of my “household” duties (i.e. I mentioned taking over the bills, which has traditionally been “his” chore) since I would be at home more, he seemed somewhat surprised and answered that he thought the reason I was cutting back was because I was doing way too much already and had not anticipated me taking on “other” things to replace what I was giving up! What a relief! I think we will still have to go over some of the other basics (since I hate laundry and will no longer have my nanny to do it, he may have to step up to the plate sometimes) but it seems like it will be an important but maybe not so horrible conversation to continue. Thanks again!

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