Welcome back to No One Told Us, the podcast that tells the truth about parenting and talks about all the stuff you wish you had talked about before you had kids.

It's another episode with my husband Marley.

Hey, everybody.

Our last couple episodes were popular because I think people just really like hearing your opinions

on things. So today we're going to do a little bit of a Q&A at the end. Before we get into

people's questions, a lot of people are wanting just like a very quick update. How is stay-at-home

dad life going? How are you liking it? Stay-at-home dad life has gotten to a really

great place. I think there was, you know, some adjustments for both of us making the transition,

but I think we're in a routine now. The kids really like it. It's so lovely to get to spend all this

time with plenty. Yeah. It's nice for you to be able to, A, have more time to work, but also B, have more time to do all the other things in life that make life worth living. Yeah. I've gotten to exercise a little bit. A little acupuncture, a little socialization. Yeah. I'm like getting out in the world again, which has been

very nice. I will say, like in all honesty, we did struggle a little bit. Early on, oh yeah. The first

few months were kind of tough. But I don't think that we were as honest with ourselves about, you know,

any transitional period is going to take some time to adjust.

Yeah.

And I think that we were hoping that we would just hit the ground running and it would be easy.

And like, obviously it wasn't.

And we were sort of foolish for not anticipating that.

I will say I was foolish for not anticipating them.

Well, yeah.

And I think, I mean, to be honest, I think I had unrealistic expectations where I just assumed that since you were taking on the full-time caretaker role, you would also be taking on all of the mental load that I had been carrying.

And I think for our relationship, maybe, that just has not worked.

I will say that some of that mental load, you are unwilling to give up.

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