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How to handle solo parenting while partner travels

My partner travels for work and I am alone with the baby for days at a time and I love my child but I feel myself getting resentful about the inequality of our situation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Work demands that create unequal parenting responsibilities can breed resentment even when the circumstances are not chosen by either partner.

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