&gt;<i>i dont know whats going on with your spouse, but you&#x27;re assuming your experience is universal.</i><p>No, I&#x27;m merely making an informed guess that my experience is common enough.<p>Never heard about &quot;not spending enough time with the family&quot; as a thing of modern life, a.k.a &quot;work&#x2F;life balance&quot; issue?<p>Here are some pointers: &quot;According to a new study by Harvard and McGill University researchers, the United States lags far behind nearly all wealthy countries when it comes to family-oriented workplace policies such as maternity leave, paid sick days and support for breast feeding. Jody Heyman, founder of the Harvard-based Project on Global Working Families and director of McGill’s Institute for Health and Social Policy, states that, &quot;More countries are providing the workplace protections that millions of Americans can only dream of. The U.S. has been a proud leader in adopting laws that provide for equal opportunity in the workplace, but our work&#x2F;family protections are among the worst.&quot;<p>&quot;As previously mentioned, Americans work approximately 47.1 hours each week; some employees work up to seventy hours. Therefore, it is safe to state that the average number of hours Americans presently work each week is the highest it has been in nearly seventy-five years.&quot;<p>&quot;Fewer than half of working parents stay home when their children are sick, even though research shows that sick children recover more quickly when a parent is there. …54 percent of working women are not entitled to any paid leave for taking care of a sick child or other family members&quot;