Question

So, my husband and I have been going through some relational changes recently. They have been great changes, and we're doing really well. We've been eating healthier and working out together, and I am surprised at what a difference it makes in my emotions when I'm not eating junk food. Financially we're getting by. I don't currently have a job, but I'm working on becoming certified as a personal trainer and nutritionist so that I can bring in some more income. This excites me, as it will be my career and I will have the certification in around six months from now, so yay!! My husband is in a job he hates right now. He only has it to pay our bills and support us while he figures out what he wants to pursue. He has goals for us as a couple: he wants to be able to retire, he wants to offer our future children more opportunities than he or I had because our parents were poor, he wants to help with their education, etc. The job he has now is definitely not going to offer an income like that, so he's looking into going to college for a BS in a medical field. In our state it's a needed position and it pays really well. My question is: has anyone here either worked full time and gone to school full time while also having a family, and/or had a spouse who did that? If so, how did you manage it? My husband won't be able to start school for a bit yet...this fall at the absolute soonest. I will have finished my certification program by then and, God willing, will have a job as well. As a personal trainer, my schedule will not be the same as his, especially if he's doing full time work and full time school. I am preparing myself to see him a lot less than I see him now, and I'd like to glean some advice from people here on how to make it work. We don't have kids yet, and we aren't planning on having them until he's done with college. But still, even with just the two of us, it seems like it will be difficult to spend a good amount of time together, and since this is something neither of us has had to face(cause we were stupid and decided to marry before either of us had an education under our belt...stupid twenty-year olds...), I was hoping to get some tips on how to make this easier on both of us, and still see each other for more than a kiss good morning and a kiss go odnight.

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