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Next week's question
My husband works too much. He leaves by 6:30 a.m. and is home by 6:30 p.m. at the earliest. At home, he addresses work calls regardless of how urgent they are. We want to have kids, but I refuse, assuming he will continue to choose work over family life. When we fight he apologizes and says he is doing it temporarily to make extra money for the benefit of our family. Other times he gets mad that I don't understand, and says he warned me it would be this way and I agreed to married him anyway. I knew there would be long hours and emergency calls, but I never thought random work issues would interfere in our family life seven days a week, 365 days a year, seven years in a row. How do I learn not to resent him and decide when to have a child?
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