Does you SO treat paternity leave like a vacation

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So my SO was given 4 weeks of paternity leave which is great but he’s drank ever 3rd night which leaves me solo with baby. Would this be okay with you?

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My hubz had 2 weeks off. It was definitely no a vacation for him. I needed a lot of help since i had a bunch of stitches. Also, he is a parent too. 
We tag team pretty well. He would go to the gum for an hour, then when he got home i got to take a shower or a nap. 
It all about balance for us. Now that he’s back at work, he takes care of the baby for an hour or 2 in the evening while i get a break. He goes to bed really early because he take the 3am feeding and then heads to work.

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Well In my relationship we ask the other if it's okay to have anything more than 1 or two so I would have the opportunity to tell him no I would prefer you didn't drink. Twice a week seems "normal" to me but then again my SO doesn't drink much so he's not incapable of caring for the baby just cause he drank.  But also my SO Doesn't help with baby at all at night that's part of our own deal

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My husband didn't have paternity leave.. But when he's home on the weekend it is definitely no "day off" we have 4 kids and if he's not going to help then he better look for a weekend job .. But.. He does help ALOT ! even diring the week he comes home and starts dinner if I havent, he washes the dishes, helps pick up if it's messy, he also bathes and puts our toddler to bed every night 😌

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He does but I dont like it. I wish hed help.

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No. That would not be okay with me at all. He needs to help you.

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Mine tried that crap the first few days of his paternity leave and I shut that crap down real fast.

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Mine could only take a week off, but that man waited on me hand and foot without me asking. 
Now, when he comes home on fridays (works out of town) he helps, but I don’t ask him to do a lot by my own choice because he works so much and so hard that I feel like when he comes home he needs to rest (although he doesn’t). If it were a normal week I wouldn’t care personally, but if we were getting settled with new baby I think it would bother me some. I feel like both parents are responsible all of the time.

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My husband definitely thought he was going to be having it easy when his paternity leave started. It quickly changed when he realized how much attention our two year old needs and now just gets overwhelmed. On top of it, I had a c section and found out I have a small internal tear at one of my stitches on the far right corner so he has even more responsibilities with trying to care for me and household chores.  With everything, I try my hardest to give him a couple nights where I haul up to the bedroom with the baby and our toddler is already asleep so he can have quiet time or if he wants to go out for a couple hours with friends. He’s definitely picking up the slack right now since I’m super limited in how much I can actually do.

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What’s paternity leave? Jk. We don’t get any.

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No but he says I’m on vacation while taking sole care of our son on maternity leave

Does you SO treat paternity leave like a vacation

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