My mate is working this strange working schedule where she works from 1:30 pm - 10:00 pm (1300-2200). So when I'm at work, she's at home and by the time I get home, she's in the middle of her shift. I feel like we're literally ships passing the night. She gets home and I'm sleeping; I go to leave for work and she's sleeping. We get two full Saturdays and two half Sundays out of the month to actually spend time together, so at least there's that.
I know things would be worse. I'm retired Navy and we've spent longer times part, but this different. T0 be in the same house, yet unable to spend all that much time together... It's so strange. And now she calls me and says that she won't be home until after midnight because someone called out sick on the night shift... Oh well for me because I'd be asleep anyway, but it really sucks for her. At least she doesn't have her original shift which was from 10:30 pm - 7:00 am (2230-0700) the following morning. We got a little more time at night before she had to go to work, but the hours were killing her since she's never worked like that before unlike me who did 17 years of 12 hours day and night shifts when I was in the Navy.
Like the title of this blog says... Just feeling a little lonely right now. Maybe she's right... Maybe we need a dog since we don't have kids and neither one of us is a cat person... Besides... I'm allergic to cats.