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They Called My Parental Leave a Vacation. Let Me Tell You What It Actually Was.
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Five months. No goodbye episode, no explanation — just gone. If you're still here, that means something, and Robbie appreciates it more than he's going to admit.
He's back, and the last five months have been a lot. Baby number three joined two kids already in school and sports, a wife back at work, and a corporate job that just decided parental flexibility is no longer a company concern. Oh, and a coworker who called paternity leave a "vacation."
This one's a check-in more than a deep dive — raw, a little unpolished, recorded at 5:45am while an 8-month-old waits in his crib. But it's real, and it hits on something a lot of working parents are quietly feeling right now: the gap between what companies say they value and what they actually reward, why parents are somehow expected to be hyper-productive AND be present, and what it means to be the type of man — and dad — you actually want to be when the job asks you to choose.
Welcome back to the chaos.
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