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I wouldn't call it incompetence. I get the same sort of treatment when my wife leaves (rarely) on overnight trips.
I think it's more that people, women in particular, think that men are clueless or helpless when it comes to taking care of young kids for an extended period. They probably think it's "cute" to say those things and in a sense it is "cute." Every television show that had a family in the central plot had an episode or two about the "helpless father" who couldn't handle the kids when the wife went away ... or an episode about how the father thought it was "easy" to take care of the kids and the wife went away for a weekend to "prove something."
Don't let it bother you unless someone says point-blank, "You can't take care of your kids because you are incompetent."
Of course, not all women think that men are helpless when it comes to kids. My wife doesn't. How does your wife feel about it?
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