Anyone else work with DP/DH's for 24/7, how do you do it?

[DoingSomeGood]

I would like to know how you cope living, raising children and working together 24/7. Our DCs are 9 & 12.

I do and I am exhausted. Getting time off from our own business (no other employees) is hard. We have been doing this for nearly 10 years. Many of my friends say they don't know how I do it. Sometimes I do want to turn my back on it all, but I can't.

Please let me know if there are others like me, I am beginning to think I must be mad.

There must be others like me or am I a freak?

i used to work with DH... but not 24 /7....

sounds like you are burning out, which is no surprise..everyone needs time off work, and time on their own....

is there any way of lessening the load?

one employee, part time?

do you have help with the house & chores?

anyway you can find a different job?

work less hours?

of course you are not a freak!

Thanks. I do have a cleaner which is helpful. Also, once the dcs are back at school next week, my guilt me be less, so hopefully less stressed.

Working, posting on mn and getting dcs some food since first post. Will try to get out later for a break.

bump for nightowls.

Yes there are others - but we're also frantically busy!

No kids yet - due in Dec - but we run a small (7 bedroom) hotel with restaurant and public bar. We're on duty from roughly 7am to after midnight 24/7....

We try and make sure that we each get a half day off a week, away from the building as otherwise we're going to work. No matter how good your intentions, if you're at work, you're working .

Feel free to email me: ljnoble [at] gmail [dot] com it would be good to chat to someone else who's wondering how they're managing!

thanks lady, TBH dealing with the public face to face in the business you do, must be an added presure. I also work in the tourist trade, however our clients are on the end of a phone. I may take you up on the email offer, thank you as it would be good to chat.

Congats on your first baby. You'll have a busy Christmas then .

Glad to make contact.

When I manage, I've been reading a blog called "Escape from cubicle nation" which is written by a woman who helps folk go self-employed. At the moment, I'm about 2 months behind!

It's got a lot of good stuff, though often I have to think hard about how it would apply to our kind of (non-consultancy) business.

The post that was sent to me, and which got me started on reading it, is here.

We've decided, for the first time, to close for three days over Christmas and have the immediate family down. It will be a respite for us before New Year, which I suspect we'll be needing - especially DH who is chef on top of everything else.

Yes, me.

DH and I don't work together but are in the same line of work and so we share an office (at home). We are together at home 24/7 bar meetings etc.

It can be hell if you're not getting on. But also it can be nice to be involved in each others lives so deeply

Me - the way we cope is by never working on Sundays (well, almost never) and making sure we have an hour's unwinding time every night.

Love it, would never go back to our old lives of never seeing each other.