Thanks so much ladies. Just reading your words, knowing you understand is so comforting. Abigail, I can't even imagine being a "single mom" for MONTHS at a time. Or maybe I don't want to! You are stronger than I. Since it's October now, I hope your WFF is home.
Trina, a 24/48 FF is far from "plain and boring"! Not only is wildland firefighting rare here. But so are full-time FDs. The communities are so small they're all volunteer. So I don't even know any wives of full-time structure FFs either!
And my husband is on the volunteer dept too. So even when his is home we lose him when the pager goes off as well. The other volunteer FF wives understand dealing with our FFs leaving during supper, baseball games, birthday parties. But they can't relate to being without him 24 hours a day.
My WFF came home on Tuesday. So we're the excitement of him being home has waned a little. Now we're dealing with reverting back to our old routine together. Even a good change is still change. The good news is it sounds like he'll be home for awhile.
Again, thanks for your thoughts. Hope to see you around this blog and other FF wife blogs in the future.
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I've been a WFF for 3 years now and to say you are a " single mom" is the up most disrespectful thing you could say to us. We are doing this work so you can stay home with our child and not have to work. If its that bad an so hard being a " single mom" you go out and get a job that pays the same . I mean no disrespect ma am but what we do is very hard and being away from the people we love the most (our wife and kids ) makes it even harder. I wish you and your WFF the best. God.bless
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