I still want to make this work

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Unfortunately real life gets in the way of keeping from contacting her. I found out while dropping my daughter off this morning that it is parent/teacher conferences next week. I let the wife know, and we are trying to work out a time.

My wife is a nurse so has some strange hours. However this has also made time with our daughter somewhat easier to schedule and manage. Basically, I get her on the nights she works and she gets her on her nights off. Most all exchanges don't happen in person, I drop her off at daycare, and she picks her up or vice versa.

Every other weekend (this being one of them) she is off Friday through Tuesday. The last two of these weekends she offered that I have her on the Monday night so I do not go 5 straight days without her. I have gladly accepted. She brought this up when we were just talking today. I feel bad, because I want to see my daughter as much as I can, but I lied, told her I had plans. I have to admit, this is mostly due to it being Valentines Day. I didn’t want to give her a night off to go do Lord knows what with the OM.

I don’t know if it was the right thing to do. On one hand it looks like I am busy and have a life, on the other I feel bad for not seeing my daughter, and I have a feeling she might see through my antics.

BTW, all of this back and forth is through text, always! Drives me crazy, wish she would talk on the phone more. I did make a joke and she (text) laughed and said I still had it. Drives me crazy really. If we can be so nice to each other, still make each other laugh, why can’t we fix this marriage!