Does anyone work Swing Shift and feel the social isolation associated with it?”
My husband worked nights and I worked days for 5 years. We made it work, but when he finally took a different day job, it really messed us up – we had 2 children at the time, and when he was home now all of a sudden, the kids resented it because “he messed up our routine”…. Also, when he worked nights, I made all of the sports events, etc., alone. Since I was not from the town we lived in, but my husband was, when our kids were small and beginning baseball/softball and for the longest time, everyone thought I was divorced. I have had several friends whose spouses work changing shift work, and it causes alot of isolation and fights. One is depressed all of the time because the kids are grown and she is alone, the other is overwhelmed because she has to do everything… It is just tough… Got to have a strong relationship to begin with. And yes, we initially took a lower paying job to get out of it, and now are better off with a better job and relationship.
