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Keith came home strutting like a game show winner, dropping his keys and announcing he was heading to a resort with his parents next week. I stood there, holding our screaming 12-week-old, running on reheated coffee and granola crumbs, while he barely looked at me. \u201cI need a vacation,\u201d he said, as if I\u2019d been sipping margaritas all day. Then came the real kicker\u2014\u201cYou don\u2019t work, baby. You\u2019re on maternity leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

So I smiled. Not because anything was funny\u2014because I was about to teach him what \u201cvacation\u201d really meant. When he left, I packed up Lily and all her baby gear, emptied the fridge, paused every bill payment, and left a note: \u201cLily and I are on vacation too. Don\u2019t wait up.\u201d Then we drove to my mom\u2019s, turned off our phones, and relaxed for two glorious days while he scrambled in chaos.<\/p>\n

By the time I turned my phone back on, Keith was spiraling. No groceries. No power. No idea how to adult. His texts were a meltdown in real time. I let him sweat for another day, then reminded him sweetly that I was just enjoying a little break\u2014since I apparently \u201cdon\u2019t work.\u201d When I finally came home, the house was a disaster, and he was a broken man. \u201cI get it now,\u201d he said. \u201cI was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

I handed him a list of shared chores and told him he was on baby duty Saturday. He agreed, humbled and wiser. As I walked away, I reminded him: call motherhood a vacation again, and next time, I\u2019m leaving the diapers with him too. He muttered to Lily, \u201cYour mom is scary smart.\u201d She cooed. I smiled. Lesson learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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