Miss My Wife

[davidcubed]

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[lucynixon]

I know what that's like - my husband used to work away from home from Monday morning until Friday night. He did this for a decade, while our children were babies to being about 10, so I could go for days without speaking to an adult.

You do get used to it, though. Now they're 13, 12 and 10, and he's home again, we work together from home. That took some adjustment!

Do you live very rurally?

[rdash]

But you know, I think us guys might actually have a hard time of it. My wife is at the Cannes film festival. She'll have been gone for 10 days. I was fine the first few days until she phoned me, then I have stopped missing her for the past week. I told her not to call me, as I knew this would happen. She was gone to LA for 10 days in April, too, and that's what happened: a soon as I heard voice, I missed her more. I prefer to keep it to email, txt msg and IM.

[jdarney]

I don't think I could do this job living in a rural area. That's pretty hard core, it's solitary enough as it is.

[davidcubed]

Its a city of 35k people, mostly industrial workers (ford plant and whatnot) and some farmers. No technology scene whatsoever. I live in a new sub division. There is a dirt pit beside my house where another house will be built someday, and one kitty corner to me.

I have no friends in this city, no one that knows me. It is a city, but it may as well be rural. Sure, it sounds easy to just "make friends" or "join activities" but I live on the south end of the city, and it takes about an hour to bike from here to where the shops and whatnot are. and twice that to cross to the other side to get to where most events and activities are held. We don't have a second car, nor the money for one. And public transportation here is mostly those short buses on a schedule that goes from 8am till 5pm.

It is more expensive to take a cab in this city than Toronto by almost two fold.

Anyways, that's my little rant about St. Thomas.