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This is so spot on. Having kids is challenging but a lot of my blah surrounding it comes from doing WAY more of it on my own than I pictured. Not the actual kids part of it at all. The joy with them outweighs the hard parts of them for sure!

Along that note, I made a lot of assumptions about parenting with my husband. But we were raised differently and it comes through – mainly that my dad was present and involved. And his was way more hands off. So I would talk about what parenting together looks like for both of you ideally. For me, my husband has always been career driven and worked a lot and I just assumed it’d naturally slow down when we had kids and that hasn’t been the case. And it’s like why did I assume it would be?? Wish we would have talked more nitty gritty about day to day expectations before hand!