Truly no shade to the author but this made me want to scream into a pillow. The idea that a woman can’t take a yoga class without their husband having a breakdown and calling for her to come back while being in charge of 2 kids for what could only have been 2-3 hours tops while she regularly held down the fort solo is bananas. It plays right into the “mothers have a natural instinct and dads are just sweet helpless things” bullshit that we’ve been spoonfed from birth.

If my husband had called me back from my one hour away in weeks just because things got a bit hairy WITH HIS OWN KIDS that would be grounds for divorce.

It’s also extremely interesting isn’t it how these dads who cannot manage anything suddenly figure it out if the relationship collapses and they are co-parenting so he has the kids by himself for days on end.