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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How could you be angry with your spouse if they have to travel for work?

My husband and I both travel for work although not with much regularity anymore. We handle the communication by letting each other know as soon as we'll be away and then making plans for the time (i.e. getting extra help as needed).[/quote]

I'm guessing OP has a spouse like my friend who travels frequently enough that my friend has had to shift her career around to accommodate it.   And she picks up all the slack when he's gone and instead of getting a break when he's back, she's met with how "exhausted" he is from the travel and needs a day to recover.   [/quote]

There’s work travel and then there’s work travel.

I’m like your friend. And when I finally broke and said he needed a different role or we needed to restructure our lives completely, he secretly accepted an even more travel-intensive role and told me after the fact. And then divorced me.

Now he travels whenever he wants and blows off visitation. The irony is that a huge part of his travel was never necessary in the first place but he plays fast and loose with travel reimbursement and always uses the cop-out of “in-person time with his team” if anyone questions it.

I’m sure his teams steel themselves every time he rolls into their offices the way I used to brace myself when he came home from trips. Good luck to them.[/quote]

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