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Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is editor-in-chief of Catholic Digest and Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com and the author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also enjoys speaking around the country, is employed as webmaster for her parish web sites and spends time on various …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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Daria Sockey is a freelance writer and veteran of the large family/homeschooling scene. She recently returned home from a three-year experiment in full time outside employment. (Hallelujah!) Daria authored several of the original Faith&Life Catechetical Series student texts (Ignatius Press), and is currently a Senior Writer for Faith&Family magazine. A latecomer …
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Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Dad Not Home?

Getting through it

One of the areas in which our family is incredibly fortunate is my husband’s job.

He is well-compensated for work he finds both stimulating and enjoyable, his commute is a mere fifteen minutes, he has flexible hours, and he rarely has to work more than forty of them in a week.

I discovered recently that I have not been properly appreciating the last part of that deal.

Bryan’s team is working on a project that has a looming deadline, and he’s been putting in a huge number of hours on it: going in early, staying late, bringing work home.  This is very much out of the ordinary for us.  I’m trying to be upbeat about it because there’s nothing he can do to change the situation, and fortunately his deadline is next Wednesday so the end is in sight.

Still, I have to say: I am really not enjoying my husband having to work so much.

It occurs to me, though, that there are many people who have it much worse than we do.  We’re blessed that Bryan doesn’t usually have to work overtime, that his commute is short, that we get plenty of time with him.  Some husbands and fathers have no choice but to spend long hours away from their families in order to make ends meet.

I’m guessing that some of our readers here at Faith & Family Live! live with or have lived with situations where their husbands and partners-in-parenting had to be absent from the home on long-term or short-term bases.  If you’ve been there, how do or did you deal with it?  I’m sure I’m not the only one who could use some tips for handling this more gracefully.

And if anyone who is blessed as I usually am has come up with simple, small ways to offer loving support to another mom whose husband isn’t around as much, we’d love to hear those too!


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I have three small children, two with autism.  My husband works long hours, has an hour commute each way, and has been working on his master’s degree for the past couple of years.  I have pretty much been a single parent since then!  We are definitely looking forward to the end of school early next year!  One of the most helpful things other people have done for me is to take one, two, or all three of the children out for a few hours.  I get a little bit of quiet at home and can get a few things accomplished.  The kids enjoy the outing and are refreshed when they get home.  It is greatly appreciated!


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