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Cool. So basically you left your wife with an incredibly intense emotional burden alone to struggle with your daughter by herself.

I hear this story all too often. This is not an anecdote about work life balance, this is an anecdote about how men take it for granted that women will inherit and take care of all the chaos in life and men can take a relative vacation at the office.

It's not ok.

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Personal attacks will get you banned here. You can't post like this on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel their life choices about intimate matters have been.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this again.

Go easy.

Don't shame someone's escapism in the face of something life altering. You don't know his suffering, but try and come across more empathetic.

My wife and I had a little chat about this yesterday when my comment got popular, with me expressing some regret for working so much. She told me she doesn’t really remember much of anything about the first year. Then she shrugged and said that’s probably the most useful thing I could have done.

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