My Husband Is Never Home

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Izzy enjoys being a stay-at-home mom but because her husband's job takes him away for months at a time, she also feels like a single mom. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Izzy, welcome to the program.
0:14.5	Hi, Dr. Laura. It's an honor to speak with you.
0:17.1	Thank you. What's happening?
0:20.7	Well, I am calling just with kind of a general question, I guess. I'm
0:26.1	struggling with maybe feeling selfish for asking my husband to change jobs or to not pursue a,
0:35.1	you know, a dream job that takes him away from the family.
0:39.9	How old are you? How old is he? How long have you been married?
0:44.8	I'm 27 and he's 32 and we've been married for seven years. And we've got two kids, a five-year-old
0:51.8	and an eight-month-old. And what is his daily schedule?
0:58.2	So he spends 90 days or more sometimes out of the country,
1:05.7	and then he'll get to spend 30 days at home.
1:09.0	Why did you marry somebody who has this kind of career in the first place?
1:15.4	Well, he did not have the career when we were married.
1:19.6	So before you were married, what did he do for a living and what was his schedule then?
1:26.3	When we were first married, he was a first responder, so he worked like 24 hours
1:32.4	at a time, and then he had 48 hours off. He was a firefighter. So was this in the fire department?
1:39.1	Yes. Okay. And then when did he go international? And how did that come about and tell me of the discussions you two had about that?
1:54.5	So he started, he kind of started like traveling for work around the COVID pandemic.
2:07.5	He started traveling, helping out in New York when everything was pretty bad.
2:13.1	And then it kind of just escalated from there.
2:16.4	But this most recently, after we had our youngest baby, I was just kind of burnout.
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