I've NC'd for this. I'm totally fed up. Husband is a workaholic. He was on holiday last week for the Easter holidays with our 2 children and he worked every day. We weren't away, just doing day trips here and there. He worked some days for half a day and others the entire day. He's a lawyer and has a stressful and demanding job. We are fortunate financially and I appreciate this, but I took a week off my work to spend with the kids (9 and 12) and expected he would have at least been present.
If this was the first time it had happened, I wouldn't think much of it. But it's a pattern. He lives and breathes this work. When the kids were younger, they didn't really notice, but my eldest has repeatedly commented this week about dad always working and about how he is always on his laptop or on the phone. I don't feel it's a good example, healthy for my husband, and I really worry for the future as it drives a wedge between us when I feel we never have any real time together. I feel pretty pissed off right now and wonder whether I'm just enabling him to be an absent parent.
Just as an afterthought - he genuinely is working. This isn't about there being a potential other woman. There is yet another deal at the moment, and yet another promise it's "just for now".
So fed up and feeling like a single parent here. More annoyed for the kids was hanging about all day for him to be finished all last week for his god damn work. Back to work for me now and back to school for kids feeling like we all wasted out time having any time off at all. Grrrr!