Confessions of a Truck Driver's Wife

Truck drivers work long hard hours and are rarely ever home. Their job is filled with plenty of stress as they worry over getting loaded on time, getting the load delivered on time, making sure the load scales out with the right amount of weight in the right places. Tickets are sure to come if the load does not scale out just right. So stress is on them constantly when they are gone.

Now comes the family part. They are rarely home to be a husband and a father. When they are home they are tired and need time to unwind. Well with being gone so long and then when they are home needing to unwind, is sure to bring on lots of fights between them and their spouse. Divorce rates among truck drivers is extremely high. How do I know all this? Because I am a truck driver's wife. Here is my confessions.

I wake up in the mornings reaching for a man that is not there. Now I am resentful and angry because as a wife I should have a warm body to wake up next too. The baby of course is crying. Can't he get the baby just this once? Nope because he is not here. He is not here to deal with the constant crying of the baby. So I must crawl out of bed and do it all by myself yet again.

Time to get two of the kids up for school. I make my way up the stairs for yet another morning of arguments. One child is eager to get up and get ready for school. The other child as always wants to roll over and ignore me. Great, I just know this is going to yet another morning of having to load all four kids up and drive the two oldest to school. I finally get the balking child up and getting dressed.

As I come back down stairs I get to see the damage the baby has done as he has ran free destroying everything in his path. Great why wasn't Daddy watching him while I got the other two up for school? Oh wait that is right my husband is not here. Anger and resentment hit me with full force now.