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S/O time away from your H
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I think most of us are in agreement that we enjoy a few nights away from H - veg, junk food, trashy tv, whole bed to yourself, etc etc etc.
But how long before you're over it?
My H is doing 6 weeks of training for work - gone M-F, home on the weekends. This is the beginning of week 3, and I am officially over it. And we don't have kids. I can't even imagine if we did. I apparently have a hard enough time taking care of myself and two animals. 
On the up side, this nonsense is almost half over!
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Re: S/O time away from your H
If we didn't have Will, I'd probably be over it after two to three weeks.
However, DH went on a trip for work a few months ago. He was gone for four days/four nights and I was over it by day two. lol
I love to do bed angels for about two or three days before I need my man back.
I love that son of a b.
H and I have been apart now for 7 months and I was over it so long ago I can't even remember. I will say I definitely had some days where I just got down right pissed at the situation. Ooooh well. We pick ourselves up and keep moving, I guess!
You're definitely not alone in this!
hahaha if you're talking about what I think you're talking about H and i call it "starfish" haha. Big sprawling out in the bed when you sleep?
haha, yes. I love it.
for my own safety and sanity i guess i will say one week. i am so slothful when i'm alone and subsist on cheese slices, chocolate, and asparagus. i'm also incredibly paranoid and don't sleep well at all.
eta: before we were married and were just living together i would be gone for 3 weeks at a time a few times a year and we were both fine. we weren't always able to communicate b/c sometimes i was in an area w/ no mail service, but i was okay since i was w/ other people and had work to do. and h survived b/c he is better at being an adult than i am.
These kids are killing me lately, so I need him here as much as I can get. If we didn't have kids I could go a week or two. What I would really like is if the girls would go away a week on a business trip.
I found out last week that DH is going to be going away once a month, for a week each time probably until the end of the year. I didn't mind it before we had kids but now with Jackson plus the two pisser pugs I am sure it isn't going to take me long to get over it. I really wished that we were living closer to my family.
I am sure I am going to be b!tching so be prepared!!!
Daycare is SO exhausting!
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This is me too.
6 weeks with him home on the weekends and no kids actually sounds fine to me. Trash TV all week, no dishes, minimal laundry, no cooking and then he's home to bone on the weekends.
Sounds fine!
LOL
My dogs go crazy without MrJJ by night two. (This is today BTW, they are so restless, none of us will sleep tonight).
He's been gone at most 2.5 weeks from me. If the dogs were cool with it I could go about 4-5 days solo. I just get scared home alone, for no good reason. There is like zero crime in my area, I have two loud dogs, my phone near me, lock the doors.... but my parents let me watch so much America's Most Wanted growing up I don't do well home alone.
This is a timely post though, because when he gets to France he'll be gone about that much time before I arrive, but I'm coming home 3 months before he is. Which makes me super sad, I'm going to miss him heaps. Hopefully I build some coping strategies for living solo.
My H used to work lots of nights and weekends, and while I didn't ever love it, I was used to spending a lot of time alone. But the last while has been really good for us, and I super miss him now. I know I'm spoiled by how much he takes care of me, too, and it is so much more apparent when I have to do everything by myself!
I'm glad I'm not alone in this. It was nice for a little while, but now I'm ready for the next few weeks to be done already.
I guess I'm super pathetic. lol
I love time away from H, but I hate spending the night away from him. I sleep like shiit without him in bed next to me.
Right now is great because he has class two nights a week, and gets home just a few minutes before bedtime. I get the house and tv to myself all evening, and he's home in time for snuggling.
ETA: This is a new thing for me really. We spent the vast majority of our relationship working different shifts, so we used to have hardly any time together. Usually one one night a week.
I snorted for real at this.
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