| I recently got married right after my husband finished his masters degree. The entire time we were dating he didn't have to work at all so we were together 24/7. We discussed him going offshore before we got married (he is a petroleum engineer) and agreed that it would be hard and that even if he had to take a lesser paying job (office engineering positions pay less but you essentially get to go home everyday) he would. Well after four months of job hunting he finally got a job offer but it requires him to be gone a lot. I imagined it would be hard but living it is worse. I am currently going through the first extended period of him being gone and I got really depressed after a couple weeks. Then he drove 8 hours just to see me for one weekend and while I was ecstatic I did feel kind of awkward and there was a couple hours of needing to get used to being emotionally reaquainted. If it were just a 3 week trip I could cheer myself up by thinking "On ce he's back he's back" but being married to an offshore worker I know that once he's back its only a matter of days or weeks before he's off again. Any wives that are married to someone who has to be away for long periods of time... does it get better? How to battle the depression when they leave? | 
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