I can very much relate to this. I'm 31 years old and have two kids, and my attitude was and is quite egalitarian. Yet it's my wife who works part time, and I d

I can very much relate to this. I'm 31 years old and have two kids, and my attitude was and is quite egalitarian. Yet it's my wife who works part time, and I do full time. Mostly because my baseline salary is much higher than hers, and doing it the other way around would hurt our financial situation severely. And kids are expensive too. I try to make it up by not working crazy hours, playing with / taking care of the kids (and laundry) when I get home etc., but it's tough. There's only so much energy left after an intense day of work (even if it's "just" eight hours), and between that and the kids, time and energy for anything else is very scarce. It leaves me with the feeling of living only for work and the family, not much left for myself.