Love isn't always easy
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 10:20PM As some of you may or may not know, the BF got a new job. He now works as a producer for a big time morning radio show in Chicago. I cannot even begin to tell you how proud I am of him. He's worked so hard to get this over the last few years and for someone his age (23) this is a big position.
No one deserves this more than him but I have to admit it has been hard on us. This new job means a new schedule. Now, he leaves the house around 11:30 PM and comes home at 10:00 AM. He sleeps all day and he's supposed to get up when I get home from work at 6:00 PM. He's having a hard time adjusting to his new sleep schedule so he has been sleeping until 10:00 at night usually. As I write this, it's 10:23 PM and he is still sleeping.
I don't see him on the weekends either because both of us are busy working other jobs and are schedules conflict with one another. For someone who apparently lives with me...I sure don't see him very often. :(
We've fought more in the last 2 weeks than we have our whole relationship. I don't fight with him because we have problems, I'm fighting with him because I miss him. I miss seeing him in the morning before I go to work, I miss IMing with him while I'm at work, and most of all I miss sleeping with him.
I feel like I took the time we had before he got this job for granted. If I would have known it was going to be like this I would have spent every moment I could with him. I try to make myself as available as possible but right now seeing one another for more than 3 hours a day just doesn't seem like a possibility.
Have you ever had to go through anything like this? How did you deal?
Reader Comments (2)
I can relate. you just have to know that it won't be forever and that you just have to make the extra effort to make the time you are able to spend together wonderful. it's hard not to fight when you feel frustrated and lonely but remember that he probably feels the same way. I'm sure you guys will figure out a way to work it all out, but it does take time and adjustment.
I hear ya!! As you know Mark is going back for his MBA. When he's not AT school he is studying....it's a bummer. You just have to remember how awesome this is for "B" and try to be supportive. Does he walk/train it to work? Maybe you and the pups can accompany him (though its late I know) but more chance to talk and enjoy each other??
For Me-I leave notes for Mark just to show I'm thinking of him, whether they are in his lunches, bag, or pant pockets, sweet nothing I call them...other than that it's a big smooch when I can! :) Hang in there kiddo, you can always come hang with this lonely gal too! :)