Why is it more emotionally complicated whenever there's a child involved? Why do I say that, you may ask?
Well, I was having homemade burgers for dinner with my son, when my wife comes home and basically says:
W: Do you have any plans tonight? M: No, I don't. Many seconds later... W: Well, I want me and 'E' (our son) to have time to ourselves to talk to his grandparents on the phone (or Skype, or whatever). I don't want to be all guarded because you might be upstairs listening on our conversation. I didn't answer right away, and waited about a minute... M: Well, what are you suggesting? W: Maybe you can go out... If you need to run some errands. M: I don't have errands. Then I continued packing up dinner and fed our dog before I said: I will go out for a drive. Just tell me when you want to call your parents and how long you're going to talk to them. W: Now would be good. And I need about thirty minutes. M: Okay.
Ugh, how would YOU answer or act in a situation like this? I did it as respect for her requested privacy. That said, what's so awkward about her parents talking to our son and me possibly hearing what they're talking about that requires me to be gone?
