I understand your thoughts, but keep this in the back of your mind. While you are feeling alone and lonely your spouse is as well, only he is in a truck in the middle of nowhere trying to make a better life for his family (YOU). When my spouse first went over the road it was hard I would cry when he left and I missed him and I did not sign up for that either. But I tell you what I learned a lot, not only about what a man really is but how to fix things myself I became much more aware of my surroundings, how to fix something if it broke it gave me a pretty great outlook on my life. A hard working man is hard to come by these days, and if your spouse is doing this to ensure that you are provided with what you need and want in life I might rethink your concerns. My husband would be gone for a couple weeks at a time and I learned that through communication I could do a lot of the things he needed to do for him before he came home so that when he got there we could spend time together. Remember though he is more than likely missing not only you but his friends to and when he is out on the road he see how much fun everyone is having without him, but he is choosing to do this for his family.....so there may be times that he will want to do things with his friends when he comes home also but be supportive you can do those things daily he is providing the comfort of home for you and I think this is a very selfless thing to do.
Our routine was he would get home either really late on Friday night or early Saturday morning. He usually had a couple things he wanted to do with the truck so I would clean the inside of the truck and restock the frig for the upcoming week with some homemade food so if he didn't want to eat out he had some good meals in the truck. (All of this I would have ready before he got home). By the time I got that done he was usually done. We would decide from there what to do in the afternoon so by the evening if we wanted to go out with friends or stay in and watch a movie we could. He would normally leave back out on Sunday afternoon.
Now I know that is not a lot of time together and it does not seem like the money is worth it, but in his mind he is trying to do something that will provide for his family comfortably. Do you think that he really wants to leave because chances are he would rather be with his family as well but sitting at home making minimum wage isn't going to give you the life you want or expect from him.
I would recommend taking a long hard look at people around you and hopefully you will see that everything is not always peaches and roses and support your spouse, don't fight with him on the phone when he driving, let him know he is loved and doing those little things when he comes home will make a difference. Being an over the road driver is not a lifestyle for everyone and it takes time to adjust to.
Hoping this might help you going forward!
Our routine was he would get home either really late on Friday night or early Saturday morning. He usually had a couple things he wanted to do with the truck so I would clean the inside of the truck and restock the frig for the upcoming week with some homemade food so if he didn't want to eat out he had some good meals in the truck. (All of this I would have ready before he got home). By the time I got that done he was usually done. We would decide from there what to do in the afternoon so by the evening if we wanted to go out with friends or stay in and watch a movie we could. He would normally leave back out on Sunday afternoon.
Now I know that is not a lot of time together and it does not seem like the money is worth it, but in his mind he is trying to do something that will provide for his family comfortably. Do you think that he really wants to leave because chances are he would rather be with his family as well but sitting at home making minimum wage isn't going to give you the life you want or expect from him.
I would recommend taking a long hard look at people around you and hopefully you will see that everything is not always peaches and roses and support your spouse, don't fight with him on the phone when he driving, let him know he is loved and doing those little things when he comes home will make a difference. Being an over the road driver is not a lifestyle for everyone and it takes time to adjust to.
Hoping this might help you going forward!