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If your partner has hobbies that take them out the house for a big chunk of the day, how do you have your own time?
If I still had my own hobbies, we’d never be together or spend time as a family. I’m not making a dig or complaining I just am genuinely interested in how other people create their own life outside of the home without it effecting family times ? Or is this just motherhood and part of the sacrifice us women make?
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My husband goes to the gym for a couple hours 3/4 times a week so we made a deal that 2 times a week I could go to the gym or do whatever I wanted to do. Then we have family time on weekends x
Come to a compromise. It's important mother gets her own time too, even if its just going to a cafe, doing a beauty treatment, nails etc. It's not fair if only father gets to continue his hobbies outside the home. Sacrifices need to be made by both partners.
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My husband and I both made an agreement when our pregnancy was progressing that we'd each get 2 evenings a week, of a few hours, to ourselves so we'd cook and eat together at whatever time suited us and then get a few hours to ourselves while the other cares for our son. There are some evenings we're aware it just won't work and one of us may have to sacrifice but the intention is there 😊