By Chris Lose
Traveling for work is hard. Being the partner left behind is even harder. It’s not a competition of who has more crap to shovel, but it is a concept that warrants more open discussion. It has been said that absence makes the heart grow fonder but long repeated periods of separation can lead to tension — at best, and at worst — jealousy or mistrust. When this troublesome situation is brought to light, it can be explored with honesty and tenderness. When it is ignored on the back burner, it can fester and boil over.
Like you, I travel for work. This means that I have to fly to wherever the work takes me. This makes for long periods of time that my beautiful wife is left at home with our seven-year-old twins, JJ the double doodle, seven loads of laundry, swim meets, dance classes and meal cooking on top of her freelance responsibilities. Resentment can creep in when she is buried to her eyeballs while I am sitting in a hotel bed leisurely writing articles about my adventures. My days off can easily be mistaken as vacation dates. My Facebook posts rarely highlight the boring hours spent perusing the calorie contents of the processed food aisles of the never-changing truck stops. Whichever side of the arrival airport you are on, I hope this article will give you a glimpse into the roadie relationship that my wife and I have worked hard for, cultivated and managed (at times with the help of a professional) for the past eleven years. If nothing else, we hope you read this article and realize that you are not alone.
Read the full article at: https://plsn.com/articles/ld-at-large/how-to-tour-and-stay-married/
