Traveling DH

sjs10

For the past two months, DH has been traveling 1-2 nights a week for work and I'm having a rough time of it.  I know it's necessary for his job, and I truly appreciate it because he makes 2/3 of our income.  I have the hardest time not when he's away but when he's on the plane there or back.  I had a long weekend and should be going to sleep now, but his flight just took off and will touch down in about 2 hours.  So I may watch a movie or something instead and wait for the call that he made it there safe.

Anyone else notice their anxieties are harder to keep in check?  I've always been fairly anxious, but this is a new one for me.  

LoveInCowboyBoots

I'm not so much worried when I'm away from him, it's just all the time. lol I just never noticed myself thinking about things like "what if I lost him?" "what if he died tomorrow?" kind of thing, and I have been lately. It's strange. Hope your DH makes it there fine!

Mrs.Veldy

My DH travels as well. He traveled M-Thurs for the first four years we were together.  He has been working from home for the past year on an internal project. He was just staffed at a client site and will begin traveling as soon as we get back from our babymoon.  He will be gone M-Thurs every other week. It is his job that is going to allow me to stay home.  So I am very grateful for his job especially in this economy. 

To answer your question, yes I am quite anxious.  I get nervous every time he gets on a plane.   I am worrying about all kinds of things and it is  worse now that we are expecting.  I am trying to keep them in check because it doesn't help him leaving when I am upset.  

Before when he would travel and left on Sunday nights, I would make Sunday night my prep time. I would do laundry, cook for the week, knot/nest/bump, etc.   Then Thursday nights I would watch all of my girly TIVO. 

 

Suparstarz714

I know it is hard to do, but try to keep yourself calm.  Everytime I get nervous about something, I start to feel really bad (cramps, uncomfortable, sick).  The anxiety is definitly heightened, esspecially being the passenger in a car. 

.happy.as.just.kim.

You have to try to keep yourself calm and not let the fears get to you. I hate to say this, but if something were to happen, there is nothing you could do to prevent it anyway, so fretting over it is pointless. I say this as a military wife, whose DH is a pilot and has had to deploy to the desert 5 times (for about 4 months at a time). I worry and get scared of something happening to him, but I also know that he is doing his job. He's protecting our country and providing for our family, and that makes me proud of him. God forbid he not come home, but there is nothing my worries can do to change anything, so I don't let them get to me. Try to just remember he's doing his job and wants to come home to you too.?