I knew what I was getting into from the beginning, but…
“C” and I have been friends for awhile. I always tangled with the “what if?”. I wanted us to start seeing each other, but the time was never right. Well, we are now seeing each other. However, she is an over the road truck driver. She’s gone 3-4 weeks at a time.
She just left for her first trip out since we’ve become a couple. I miss her already. I accepted this from the start, but it’s still hard. A couple of days and hopefully I’ll be myself again.
I hope.
Hi! You have my sincerest sympathies as you miss your loved one.
I have second-hand knowledge of how hard it is on a relationship when one of the partners is a long-distance truck driver. It wrecked my best friend’s marriage. Now, there were other mitigating factors, but being gone for weeks at a time for years on end isn’t the greatest thing for a couple who are trying to build and maintain a relationship and a family. The problem is, the driver has to pay the bills and the upkeep on the truck. To get the money, he or she has to drive the truck all over the place, hence the long absences. That’s pretty hard for some couples to deal with. There must be exceptions, I mean, there just have to be lots of couples who find a way to keep it together with one partner on the road all the time. My best wishes to you that you both can be an example of the latter, and not the former!
There are.
Many of us.
My hubby has been driving for ten years, and holding things together can be tough. It takes a lot of effort to keep our relationship strong but it’s worth it. Every day he calls to say good morning, I call to say goodnight, and sometime during the day we make time for a longer call. I take my four weeks vacation over four separate weeks and go on the road with him. He takes his two weeks with me at home, and we work in three or four long weekends to spend together.
Yes it gets lonely sometimes but I have friends and family to help keep me company. I can’t imagine looking for outside male companionship, and I trust him out there. We’ve been together for 28 years and the fool still thinks this short fat middle aged grey haired Librarian is sexy. When he comes home he always leaves tired but relaxed and happy.