It?s Saturday afternoon and I?m watching the clock, waiting for my ex-husband to bring our daughter home from a fun-filled morning. What started with him picking her up for weekly dance lessons quickly expanded to an impromptu visit to the park and a quick stop at the toy store, followed by ice cream. And though part of me is happy that he?s spending so much quality time with our daughter, another part is shocked at how much he has changed since our marriage ended. In the blink of an eye, he went from barely lifting a finger as a parent to donning a cape and calling himself ?Superdad.? Where was this guy during my marriage"
In every relationship, there is a division of labour, and it?s true that sometimes the child-raising duties just land more on one parent than the other. When it came to my marriage, it was less of a division of labour and more of a division of expectations. Somehow, the question of how we would raise our daughter never came up. Instead, it increasingly became clear that my ex-husband expected me to take care of all the day-to-day activities.
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