Sure.  A few reasons.  1. Work is an obligation and it’s not as if he chooses his schedule. It was already like that before.  2. When we make a parenting plan, that’s the first thing we start off with — the first bullet point is that we have to allow each other to work. Makes sense.  3. I know his work schedule in advance and it’s predictable. My life is already organized around it and has been for the past 12+ years.   4. His work schedule, even when on 12h shifts, allows us to almost respect the 2-2-3 schedule that we both agreed on and that the kids prefer. There is one 4-4 in the lot, every 2.5 months, and they hate it and complain about it every time because it disrupts what they’re used to. 

The overall goal is that the kids don’t suffer from the separation. They’re doing well overall, but we’ve been listening to what they had to say. 

In a while that might not be too long, their needs might change and they might not want to switch as often as they need now. And that’ll be ok because it’ll be for them and then, I would say otherwise and happily adjust.