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  1. #1
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    Jan 2012
    Western Suburbs Melbourne
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    Can you be alone?

    My DH is a shift worker, and a couple of years ago he would work a week of late starts do we were like ships in the night. It was hard then as we were planning on buying our house. So I *had* to make a lot of the decisions. But it grew our trust in each other.
    I don't like to be apart from him for long periods but I do enjoy my time alone too, and do does he. It makes us enjoy each other better, and we have stuff to talk about.
    My grandparents have been married 65 years, my grandma says its only because he was at work that they lasted that long! He would have driven her crazy otherwise. And she raised 8 kids!!
    DH and I are both independent people who are dependent on our relationship. ITMS!

  2. #2
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    May 2007
    3,220

    I suppose I still get the best of both worlds, as when he is on night shift I still see him during the day.

  3. #3
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    Feb 2010
    on a big patch of paradise.
    3,720

    I love these answers. Thanks for sharing ladies. I sat here nodding my head at so many replies.

    Onyx. I told DH we should build or by a duplex so he has one side and I can have the other. When can put a gate in the back fence but no inside connecting door

    OP, I remember just getting grumpy at DH when been up breastfeeding. He sleeps like a log so he would not even know I was up BF and would be fast asleep snoring and I would get annoyed (in a nice way though).

    It is nice to know I am not alone in my feelings, I hear so many people say they can't stand been away from their LO or that they have never had a night apart and I start feeling smoothered for them.

  4. #4
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    Jun 2012
    South Australia
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    this may sound strange.. myself and DF have been pretty much been attached at the hip since the day we met. we can't sleep a night without each other, there's no way i could get to sleep without feeling DF next to me. if we have a little tiff before bed time... we will toss and turn until we make up . sure he goes out with his mates over the weekend, but he always comes home to me every night it's just who we are. there's no way we could handle travelling for work etc and being alone. whenever i'm not with DF i miss him like crazy. i prefer being with him, than being alone.