Question for Dads: Have Your Kids Broken You?

Last night, after 13 hours of screaming, crying, and pacing back and forth in our suite, I collapsed on the floor as they finally fell asleep and my wife took a shower.Ostensibly, our twins woke up screaming while she was in the shower. But I didn't hear them. My wife frantically woke me up and informed me they were awake. I jumped up to immediately warm up the milk.At that moment, I realized something: Our five-month-old g/b twins have broken me.I have become accustomed to very little sleep these days (going to bed at midnight and waking up at 5:15, but there are interruptions because I have to warm up the milk, get the iron supplement or medications ready, and so on). But it is the other things that have gotten to me, mainly the screaming all day long. If it isn't one twin, it's the other twin.Right now, our boy has acid reflux, so we're treating that - you can only imagine what the screaming is like there. Also, our daughter is going through a phase where she can't stay in the same spot being held. She has to be held and walked all over the place, which is a great strain on my body and my wife's.I can't do grocery shopping without some plan in place for my wife. I can't throw out the trash without knowing that the twins are napping. I can't even go for a walk because I fear that my wife will be left with two screaming babies. I can't do any of the things I used to enjoy, like reading and watching old pictures. Any free time I have is left sterilizing, doing the dishes, getting laundry done, preparing bottles for the night, and everything else baby-related.By the way, I work from home, so I can't even escape for eight hours from the horrors of our life. It's nearly impossible to get work done these days, even if I work on a Sunday morning or a Friday night.It's getting to my wife, too. She is breaking down, and her family isn't willing to help, despite claiming before they were born that they'd be there for her every step of the way (I don't have any family). If her mother comes, she just sits on the sofa and criticizes my wife or spends the entire time on her tablet.So, gentlemen, do you feel your twins have broken you? I keep counting down the days until they're 18 and I've been released from prison on parole. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2qJmgSD