Hey, everybody, welcome to From the Kitchen Table.

I'm Sean Duffy along with my co-host for the podcast, my partner in life.

She's also my wife, Rachel Campo Steffey.

Sean, it's great to be back at the kitchen table. And today we have a really interesting topic.

It was an essay written in Today.com in their parenting section of their website. And it was a woman,

it was written by a woman named Geshe Haas. And the title of the piece of

the essay that she wrote is called Why I Take at least one night off parenting every week. And she

says that these days off, Sean, are essential and non-negotiable appointment. So do you mind if I break down what she pretty much says in the article?

All right.

So she basically says she had two kids.

She was burnt out, just tired, exhausted.

She felt like she was running on fumes.

And her husband sort of felt the same way.

And they decided as an experiment,

what if we just took one night each off where each other covered with each other's day.

So they're not going to take the days off at the same time. Correct. And this is not a date night.

It's not like, hey, honey, we're going on a date night to get away from the kids, which,

you know, you and I talk about that as an essential thing that couples should be doing.

This is not that.

This is, I'm taking a night off of parenting.

My spouse is picking up the slack that night.

And then the next night or some other night that week, you're in and your spouse is out.

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