I Miss My Husband

You might think that sounds silly. How can I miss my husband if I live with him? Well, it’s quite simple really.
Our work schedules are complete opposites of each other. John leaves for work at 5:30 am Monday – Thursday (unless he picks up overtime which he does 9 times out of 10 then he works Monday – Saturday) and doesn’t get home until 5:00 pm. I on the other hand, leave for work at 5:30 pm and don’t get home till around 12:30 am sometimes a little later Monday- Friday. The only time we get to see each other is that 30 minutes between our shifts and Sundays.

He kisses me goodbye every morning, and he calls me 3-4 times during the day, and I text him while I’m at work,  and all that helps but it’s hard not seeing your husband except for a mere 30 minutes a day. It makes me really appreciate our weekends together though, the weekends he doesn’t pick up extra shifts, and Sundays.  Sundays are awesome because they’re guaranteed days with John.

I hope that sometime soon we can get on  the same schedule. I’m sure some couples have done this for years, but I don’t want to be one of those couples. I’d like to sit and have real dinners with John, not rushed dinners before I leave for work; I’d like to be able to sit and relax with John at night, not come home to a sleeping house; I’d like to maybe even get up with John in the morning and have breakfast with him, not have a goodbye kiss at 5:30 before I’m even coherent. Though, I can say he wakes me up every morning with a kiss, and I’m definitely not complaining about that.

He’s an extremely hard worker and he does it all for us and I couldn’t be more grateful. This is all just part of being a responsible adult I guess. It just makes me sad that I don’t get to spend more time with him.