[notch656a]

I became more productive, although less efficient. Kids really fuck with after-hours efficiency.

There's always the knowledge that if I fail to maintain a job, it is statistically associated with divorce, and that divorce is statistically associated with child support, and that child support is statistically associated with prison and revocation of passport/property/licenses keep me going. If I fail to be productive enough I will be tossed in jail, that wasn't really the case before. But unlike some other people, I lived an exceedingly free (and low-cost) life before children, often just being homeless and hitch-hiking around the country, fighting for foreign militia, spending months living in forest or hiking trails, etc.

[Aeolun]

Huh? I became much less productive, but much more efficient. Need to make the most of the two hours a day you have to yourself.

[brnt]

Where are you getting two hours a day for yourself? We have two hours a day between kid bed time and our own, and we spend it being exhausted or together (or else we'd be total strangers real soon). I'm happy to manage 2 hours a week.

[Aeolun]

After kids go to bed at 10’ish.

We spend all the weekend together, the week is for me-time.

[glitchc]

Sounds like a tough relationship. You’re more than a meal ticket, you know.

[cplusplusfellow]

> if I fail to maintain a job, it is statistically associated with divorce

But heaven forbid you expect your wife to keep up the pretenses set when you married her.

[cplusplusfellow]

The white knights in this thread downvoting me. Pathetic.