This is so very reminiscent of my first work trip away. And in the last 9 months or so I’ve been the one doing more work travel so the script is flipped from the way it was before. I don’t think it’s about “doing more” or “less.” I just think that we tend to think of time spent with the baby more in terms of quantity rather than quality. Also spending so much time with one’s baby can make any time away feel like ages when you’re not used to it. Last summer I had a conference in Paris and then I got COVID so I was away for 10 full days which felt like so much. But once it was over it wasn’t like there was this huge gash of missing time that we were both mourning. We were just happy to be living our lives normally again.
This is so very reminiscent of my first work trip away. And in the last 9 months or so I’ve been the one doing more work travel so the script is flipped from the way it was before. I don’t think it’s about “doing more” or “less.” I just think that we tend to think of time spent with the baby more in terms of quantity rather than quality. Also spending so much time with one’s baby can make any time away feel like ages when you’re not used to it. Last summer I had a conference in Paris and then I got COVID so I was away for 10 full days which felt like so much. But once it was over it wasn’t like there was this huge gash of missing time that we were both mourning. We were just happy to be living our lives normally again.