Dear Abby: Babysitting Grandkids Has Brought Our Marriage to the Brink of Divorce

Dear Abby: The babysitting is destroying our marriage

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Dear Abby: Exhausted grandma uses up all her energy watching kids, has nothing left for her husband

They've not has sex in 8 years. Are her long hours of childcare work the only reason?

Dear Abby: Babysitting grandkids has brought our marriage to the brink of divorce

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I stopped having sexual relations eight years ago. She keeps our two grandchildren 11 to 12 hours a day, five (and sometimes six) days a week. (That’s 60 to 70 hours.) By the time they’re picked up, she’s irritated, agitated, frustrated and wants to be left alone. She doesn’t want to talk or spend any time with me. She can’t see that keeping the grandkids that much has interfered with our relationship with each other.

Dear Abby: Constant childcare extinguishes flame

Dear Abby: My wife and I stopped having sexual relations eight years ago. She keeps our two grandchildren 11 to 12 hours a day, five (and sometimes six) days a week. (That’s 60 to 70 hours.) By the time they’re picked up, she’s irritated, agitated, frustrated and wants to be left alone. She doesn’t want to talk or spend any time with me. She can’t see that keeping the grandkids that much has interfered with our relationship with each other. We a…