Just Need to Vent

AUGH!! I love my husband and I know he loves his job but I've had it up to my eyeballs with their rotation rollercoaster. He signed on for a 14/7 rotation- which usually with travel days actually amounts to 16/5.

This month they wanted him to go to training which overlapped two of his regular rotations so he would have been gone for 5.5 weeks with no time off- all out of state. During this time I found out that we're expecting our first baby together (I have 3 adopted step-children as his first wife is deceased). This has made me a morning-afternoon-evening sickness- hormonal mess. So I resign myself to not seeing him for almost 6 weeks. Then he calls and says they're sending him from an airport closer to home to his training so he'll be home for two & 1/2 days (which would have been this past friday) before heading out again. Awesome- some time is better than none. So I adjust to this news... two days later he calls and says he's not coming home because he's not going to training (too many other guys off).

Then he calls Friday (when he should have been home to go to training) and says he'll be home the following day- Saturday- for a week.... Sweet... the kids and I adjust to this. Now today- Sunday he calls and says he has no idea when he'll be home but it will most likey not be before Wednesday. And having been through this before, I know that no matter what day he comes home, he'll still have to go back to work on Monday the 1st-- so everyday they keep him there is one less day off that he gets. AUGHHHHH!!! I'm so fed up with the rollercoaster I could scream. I know I'd deal much better with it if I wasn't such a hormonal wreck and it wasn't so much harder trying to keep 3 kids & my house inline when I'm so sick everyday... but I just needed somewhere to vent to someone who knows what I'm going through.

I feel better now... thanks ladies. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Lesa R on October 25, 2010 at 11:28am

Ok, so I am not pregnant, but I do know how it feels. From towards the end of June to the beginning of October, I saw my husband a maximum of 5 days. They were spread out over that time. I thought I was going to go nuts! I have two small children, and we don't have family that live nearby. It is an emotional roller coaster, and it is good to vent sometimes. I need to do it a little more often. My friends here don't understand why we do this, and sometimes I don't either.

Permalink Reply by Kim Mullen on November 2, 2010 at 8:33pm

Honey, you just better get used to this, cause such is the way of the oilpatch. It's a given that you won't be able to plan on anything, don't count on him being there for special events or holidays. The ONLY thing these companies care about is getting the well to completion. I don't mean to sound down but I have been with my husband for 22 years, all of it in the patch.

You have a choice to make, either accept that this is the way it is and enjoy him when and however you can or it will make you nuts. You just have to focus on running the household and raising the children. It's tough that he is not there for you while you are having the morning sickness, do you have friends who can come by and help you? Congratulations on the new Baby and remember attitude is altitude!

Permalink Reply by Kim Mullen on November 2, 2010 at 8:35pm

We put up with this cause we love our husbands and this is what they love to do. The money is good also.

Permalink Reply by Brandi Hays on November 21, 2010 at 4:36pm

Another blow today- the hubs won't be home for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Happy Freakin' Holidays. This would be easier if I'd known what I was getting into when we got married. But when we got together he was working in Iron Shop in the yard and was home everynight. I just keep telling myself I'm thankful that he has a job at all- though sometimes I wonder, at what cost?

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Just Need to Vent

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