Just a rant
Being a primary parent sucks sometimes.
I love my daughter more than anything but I feel this world is not built for primary parents.
I work from home (thankfully) part time. My partner works full time but he's in meetings or calls all day.
My daughter has a medical condition which causes her to be sent home from nursery frequently. So it isn't unusual for me to be working, parenting, cleaning and cooking all in one day.
I'm exhausted. I can't have any more dependants leave because I'm only a couple of more incidents away from a disciplinary. We aren't in a financial position for me to quit work either.
The world wants more babies, but isn't prepared to support mothers or primary parents. It sucks.
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Ask yourself this, why isn't your partner her father taking some time off work to assist. He gets parental leave too, he can take a day off to look after her.
It should always be the mummy, I get that sometimes it has to be, but advocate for yourself more too!
I totally get it. I’m exasperated when political parties say that they are behind working families and in the same breath say that they are against working from home.
I make my husband take time off too. He earns more than I do so it’s not equal as him taking unpaid leave hurts us more financially, but he’ll still take a day here and there if needed so it’s not all on me
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