My husband and I also work we have our own business but I guess I've been lucky I know all of our GD friends and usually she only has one at a time over in order not to disturb us. Not many of them around the house when we're at work since most of them have part time jobs for the summer and now will be starting college. You're going thru what I went thru with our daughter guess maybe that's why GD is such a pleasure for us. My husband is my daughters step father and her father has never kept in touch so she had that deserted feeling and made my husbands life H*** for a couple years. Now they are closer than her and I. Hang in there you are not the enemy and when she's a little older she will know that and she will let you know also.