u/Liz_Wakefield

I am fantasizing about a different life.

Sometimes I daydream that my dx husband, my kids (including one dx kid), and I live in a condo in a big city where we don't have to maintain a house or yard. We would both work full-time jobs and our kids would be in an aftercare program every day. Sometimes I even dream that there would be no driving! Like maybe we would take a bus places.

My reality is that we do live in an older home that needs constant fixing, I work part-time and my schedule is inconsistent, which seems to be really stressful for my husband. Childcare coverage, since we don't need it every day, is a constant stresser and is overwhelming for my husband to participate in. There is a basement of junk and forgotten hobbies that will be there forever and bother me every day. Basically, my husband is really great at routine and working, and juggling everything else makes him very unpleasant because the executive functioning required is more than he has.

Any one living my dream?

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u/Liz_Wakefield — 3 days ago