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🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | What are some of those other things that you've thought, I think I'm the only one that |
0:11.7 | you've then shared and realized actually, this is like a thing. |
0:15.9 | Okay. |
0:17.2 | During quarantine, I considered myself for a while in quarantine, like the default parent, because |
0:25.4 | obviously we couldn't leave the house. Milo was at a difficult age. He was like 18 months old. |
0:31.8 | And my husband was working his regular job. So he got to like hop in the car and go to work and come home. And I put out this |
0:41.7 | piece of content. I think it was a clip from a podcast episode about how annoyed I would be on |
0:48.5 | Saturday mornings when my husband would start making a big pancake breakfast. And it pretty much broke the internet because |
0:57.9 | people were like, oh my God, her poor husband, like he's just trying to make breakfast for the family. |
1:04.7 | And here she is irritated. But once I broke it down, people were like, oh my God, I so get this because on Saturday morning, |
1:14.4 | I was looking forward to that time because finally my husband was home. He wasn't going off to |
1:20.1 | work. It was like a day where there was another adult in the house to take care of Milo and do all the things. So I had been doing my job of, |
1:33.0 | you know, mothering and parenting and staying home with Milo times 10 because it was quarantine |
1:39.3 | and we couldn't distract ourselves with like visits or anything. So then finally Saturday morning rolls around. |
1:46.6 | And I think that I'm going to get a break from my job that I've been doing all week now. |
1:52.5 | But when your partner starts to make a big breakfast in the kitchen, you're now left in the |
1:59.0 | living room continuing on doing the job that you have |
2:01.7 | been doing all week. Or a lot of people give the example of their partner goes out to cut the grass, |
2:08.6 | or, you know, hops in the car and goes and gets the car washed or like runs errands. And it's like, |
2:15.2 | now I'm just doing what I've been doing all week and I was looking forward |
2:18.4 | to being able to do something else. So even though on paper it looked amazing that my husband |
2:25.7 | was making pancakes, I was like, listen, Milo can have toast with peanut butter. Like we don't |
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