Every Wednesday and every other Sunday I'm basically useless at work because I'm either dreading pickup/dropoff or still emotionally wrung out from it. The kids are fine, CO is fine, everyone's cooperative... but emotionally it's like starting a new day every 3-4 days and I can't get into any kind of rhythm. Anyone else just... tired?
Have you talked to your CO about maybe staggering transition times? Like pickup at 4 instead of 3, or dropoff at 9 instead of 8? Even 30 min sometimes helps with the mental reset
I blocked off Wednesday afternoons as "admin time" at work now so I'm not expected to do actual work. It's helped my productivity on other days because I'm not fighting my brain the whole time
This is one of the things I didn't expect about co-parenting. Everyone says "the kids adjust fine!" which is true but like... your brain still has to process the separation every time
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Every other Sunday for me and I feel this in my bones. The Wednesday dread is real. I'm just... checked out mentally the whole day before transition
The emotional wrung out part is exactly it. Even if everything is smooth, your nervous system is still wrecked from the transition itself