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A place where you’re not needed, wanted, sought out, or spoken to?
I am here to evangelize the movie theater.

This is how I survived the worst of the toddler and touched out phase: I bought one of those monthly movie theater subscriptions and I made seeing a movie in the theater every week a priority. It got me out of the house and away from the kids for a couple hours, and some weeks it was the only thing allowing me to hang onto my sanity.

Seriously, the best thing about the movie theater is that it’s dark and no one is allowed to talk to you. Even if the movie is bad, no one talks to you! I’ve developed a habit of sitting in the third row because no one is ever in it. And I usually buy myself dinner while I’m there because eating while not also feeding someone else is fantastic.

The rest of it, I can’t help with. I was struggling with not melting down at bedtime for my youngest every single night because she was so difficult. But having a couple hours every week helped me hang onto my sanity.