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Originally Posted by Bluex
Hear, hear! I took the full time off with both my kids and it was the greatest thing i've ever done in my life. As my son heads off to prep school for hockey in 3 months I miss those days. It flies by. I'd do anything to have those 2+ weeks again with my infant son and daughter.
Seriously. Divorce or Death will be in your future...quickly. And you may pray for the latter.
Listen, while I disagree with his thought process, I tend to understand it. We guys get these "great" ideas that upon initial thought sound like they are no-brainers. In reality, they are bad bad bad ideas that never should have seen the light of day. Usually a bit of reflection reveals this.
Choosing to forgo that parental time-off so you can use it later to do a European Delivery may SOUND in your head like a good idea, but hell man.....it's not. And your wife will NOT think so. If she says ok to it, don't kid yourself, you'll be paying for that decision for the rest of your life. She will not let you forget it.  |
I've said this before but damn you know your shit!
I have too male friends who have had THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST ideas for their vacation. First timers are the worst because they just don't take subtle hints, the second timers just think all will go well because they already know it all, third timers just are so sick of the wives complaining they truly think running away can be done.
My friend is expecting a fifth kiddo, I texted him a link to this thread and he told me to write here that he's taking two months off, expecting to go back to work exhausted and that at best if he gets really lucky, he can take the eldest fishing for a few hours before he is done with his "holiday". Knowing the wife I expect all this to be true.
