Long Pity Party, help!!!

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if you don't do this, your children will treat their future wives the same way...

Good point. Do it for you but also you're training a future husband Your DIL will thank you.

You can add a few minutes of excerise into your chores really easily. Park further away, walk to your appointments, take the stairs, do go up and down on your toes when brushing your teeth or doing dishes. Make vacuuming more work by lunging while doing it. Wash your floors with a sponge (not a mop) and squat while doing it. Every little bit counts.

+1 on this too. Nothing replaces quality time for YOU. You have a job after all, it's equally important, valuable and as essential to your family as what your DH does. But you can add a workout to everything you do in addition to quality time on the bike or other aerobic work.

I have a sedentary job but there is a workout routine I do at my desk, stretches and strengthening stuff. Take your MIL to an appt, while she is there WALK - either just walk around or walk to another errand nearby. +1 on stairs, elevators, escalators don't exist in my own little world, get a push mower not gas or electric (saves you $$ too, then maybe DH does not have to work so hard and can help) and obviously since we are TE after all - are there errands you can ride too?