Story and Symptoms of WAW/MLC Part 3

[Rose888]

Do you pay your MIL to watch your son? If not, I wouldn’t go down the path of claiming that the days your brother watches count as your days, because then your wife gets to count all the days her mother watches as her days.

As for FMLA leave, does it matter if she uses it for her father? If she didn’t, wouldn’t MIL have to take that time to care for him, leaving you and your wife needing to watch your son.

Reading your posts, I get the impression you do expect your wife to be responsible for child care and that when you do so, it’s doing her a favor. That might work in marriages with a SAHM, but when both parents work, it’s not an equitable or fair arrangement.