Bear with me on this and read closely in gonna try explaining this best I can. I’m a ‘24M’ with a healthy relationship with my ‘22F’ girlfriend of 4 years. We both work full time.
I unfortunately chose a career very recently that secures our future forsure with insurance and money. we tried our best preparing together for me to deal with not being around each other much for this. I only get two days off Tuesday and Wednesday. I work 5:30 till 2 am without a choice right now till further notice into next year. Until I’m done with training. I also don’t get off holidays unless I’m lucky. I’m sure some of you can guess what job I have just off of that lol
My girlfriend works Monday through Friday getting home from work at 7pm with Saturday Sunday off. We only get to see each other those 4 days where we are home before I goto work on weekends at 5:30pm or when she gets home from work on weekdays at 7pm before she has to get ready for bed.
We both need sleep so that also takes away from the time we spend together. We do live together. When I’m home I try to clean up the house and make sure everything is good.
What can I do to help with keeping effort put into the relationship? What can I do with such little time to hangout every week to help keep things going?
What things can I do to show that I’m there and I appreciate her support through this?
We both knew it was going to be this way with my job and I’m worried that we weren’t as prepared as we thought. She called me today explaining how she felt and she feels I need to put more effort in where I can even tho I’m never really around. I’m home often when she’s not. So it’s not that I’m never home I’m just never home when she’s is to spend time together.