My husband is WFH upstairs and out of the way. I am on maternity leave with a baby and two toddlers. We have no childcare at all due to COVID. I have also other demands on my time (study, caring, SN of one child) but I won't bore you with details,
In the rare event both the toddlers are napping, my husband comes down and has lunch with me.
If either or both of the toddlers are awake, my husband fixes himself a sandwich and then goes back to eat it in the office while reading the news or mucking around online.
His lunch break is one hour. As I watched him ascend the stairs, leaving me with three needy grumpy children, it occurred to me that I could use a union.
I proposed that we each get 30 minutes of his lunch break and 30 minutes with the children. and he dismissed me out of hand. He said if he was working in the city then I'd be on my own anyway, and my time caring for the kids alone is almost two hours shorter because he has no commute. He also said that I have a 'break' when the kids all nap, but they rarely overlap and even then I have to run around doing chores while I can.
So, 30 minutes each. AIBU?