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How much holiday time do you and partner share... ALONE?

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Submitted by MaryKate on Tue, 04/21/2015 - 3:27am

Hello all.

For those of you that have the skids 50% of the time or thereabouts, I'd like to hear how many days your other half allocates for holidays or days off work that are just for the two of you. By the time DH has booked time off to be with the skids during school holidays, and one 'family' holiday (joy), he lets me know that he can 'give' me 5 or six days a year. Lucky me - it's up to me how and when we take them.

For those with 50/50 arrangements, or thereabouts

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Submitted by MaryKate on Thu, 10/16/2014 - 3:35am

Apologies if this topic has been done to death.

I've been reading up on research relating to the success or otherwise of shared care, and the impact of kids having to move houses every few days.

Ok – hands up, it’s true that I'd rather see less of DH's kids personally, but that aside - it still feels like a very raw deal for them. I had to do this as an adult at one point, shifting between two locations because of work arrangements and I found it mentally stressful and physically exhausting – like I was homeless for a while.