Yeah sometimes, and it can be really draining at times. DH works a nightshift, so on those days he is awake for a sum total of 1hr - 1/2hr when he gets home and 1/2hr when he wakes up before work. The rest of the time he is either in bed or at work and doesn't see the oldest two at all for those 4 days as he is either not home yet, or left again by the time they get home from school. It's hard, especially if things are really hectic, or you have sick kids, or you are sick but I make sure I get time to myself to refresh if I feel I'm getting to the point where I am nearly at the end of my tether and about the snap. Day shift is pretty much the same, but he does get to see more of the kids on those days.
Yup another shift worler here! And I thought I was all alone
DH runs our bakery so is in bed at 6 and leaves at midnight, gets home at about 10 am then back to bed, up at 1:30pm back to work then home at 4:30 dinner and back to bed! So Iget to see him for maybe an hour all up! And this is 6 days a week! so I really only get saturday night if I am lucky and sunday till 6
Its so lonely and I am so worried when nudge comes cause I dont know how I will cope with no help
My DP is gone @ 6am & is home anywhere between 7-11pm, sometimes later, for 6 days a week, sometimes 7..
Some nights the kids don't even get to see him at all!
Yep, sometimes. DH leaves at 6am and doesn't get home till 6pm. Thankfully we have him home most weekends (he works one in eight) and he spends a lot of time with the kids then.
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