How to Handle Having an Opposite Work Schedule From Your Spouse

When both you and your spouse work, making time for each other can be difficult. When you and your spouse have opposite work schedules, the task can seem impossible. The time that you both spend at your individual jobs, added with your sleep schedules, can make it seem like you never see one another. It's important that you don't allow your work schedules to rule your lives.

Things You'll Need

• Communication
• Thoughtful gestures
• Consideration
• Ability to use time constructively

Instructions

How to Handle Having an Opposite Work Schedule From Your Spouse

1. Stay in contact with one another while at work. You can use instant messaging programs or text messaging when you're at home and your spouse is at work, or vice versa. This is a simple way to keep in touch with one another constantly throughout the day.

2. Leave small gifts or romantic notes around the house for your spouse to find while you're at work. You'd be surprised how much a little note detailing how much you miss your wife will actually mean to her when she comes home from work. You could also buy little things periodically, such as small candies or flowers and leave them for your spouse.

3. Give up your own time and activities for your spouse. Having an opposite work schedule will most likely mean that one of you will want to sleep while the other is awake. Stay up with your spouse once a week, if only to talk to him. You may be a little tired at work the next day, but the sacrifice is well worth it.

4. Surprise your spouse by meeting him at his job for lunch during the week. Since you two have opposite work schedules, chances are you'll be eating alone at home while the other person is at work. Meeting your spouse for a meal while you have some free time is a great time to catch up on lost time.

5. Take the same day off of work at least once a month. Calling in sick or simply taking some paid time off will allow the two of you to have an entire day with one another without worrying about time restraints. To make this time spent together more special, take either the same Friday or Monday off so that the two of you can have a three day weekend together.

6. Make the weekends about spending time with your spouse. Even if you work an entirely opposite schedule from your wife, you'll probably have at least some weekends off together. Use that time to spend with one another, doing activities that you both enjoy.