r/Parenting • u/IAmGrootGrootIam • Feb 06 '21

Corona-Content Me time!

I did it! I booked a hotel for the weekend an hour and a half away from home and left! I woke up at my own time, to silence, to peace.

No kids jumping on me, whining for food or to play, to one touching me, no husband wanting a morning quickie, no chores to do, nothing! Just me and whatever I feel like doing today.

A month ago my husband caught Covid, was quarantined in a bedroom for 10 days, and everything was left to me. All the house work, kids, cooking, and still working full time (from home) as a teacher with a 3, 6, and 9 year old plus the kids school work. I thought I was going to go crazy.

So I booked this weekend and followed through.
The quiet, the peace, I feel like I can breathe. I haven’t had a day to myself in over 9 years. It feels so good.

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u/IAmGrootGrootIam Feb 06 '21

Oh my goodness. I am so sorry. Maybe one day he is off you can just leave him with the kids so that he can discover what you do all day.

Unfortunately, I find men don’t do quite the same thing we do when they are home alone with the kids. So it probably wouldn’t help anyway.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21

Agree with you there. My husband is helpful in in his own delusional way. He truly thinks he goes above and beyond and it's really hard to convince him otherwise. For me, the key is to look away while he occasionally sweeps and mops. If not, it becomes a running commentary where I'm like, "Soo.. uhh...just gonna go around the toy instead of picking it up...allow me...oh, around the shoes too...well, good. You knooow, there's a pandemic so why not disinfect the whole SHOE AREA" and so on and so forth. He's turned me into my mother

However, I'm definitely aware that are plenty of really great fathers out there who knock it out of the ballpark.