Anyone's husband have a danerous job?

[cupcake0214]

My husband is an investigator for corrections. Right now he is looking for an inmate. I hate not hearing from him. I know sometimes he can't. I get worried. 

[ciescalove]

My husband is a CO, so I know how you feel. Having been in riot situations myself when I was a CO, that lack of contact can be unnerving. I hope you hear from him soon!

[donutsmakemegonuts]

My husband is a police officer, so yes.

[bonquiqui]

He might be...I haven't met him yet.

I hope all is ok on a serious note.

[cinco]

Yep. I'm sorry. It sucks when you can't get in touch.

[oliviapope]

Yes, my SO is LEO and works night shift. I hate that he can't just answer his phone or shoot me a text. I am somewhat used to it, but I always check the news and their FB pages when it's been an abnormal amount of time.

[pandangie]

Not necessarily "dangerous", but hazardous, and he can't turn his phone on during his 5 days a week/ 12 hours a day job I worry more about him killing other people and the after-effects on him rather than getting hurt himself (he drives trains)

[creamsiclechica]

Yes, my husband is military. I'm so sorry he's in a very serious and tense situation. The anxiety of that and not being able to reach them or have regular updates is so difficult. The longer it goes on, the harder it is to keep it together. I hope he is safe and the situation easily resolved.

[wildfloweragain]

H is a firefighter in a nearby city. It's actually easier to block it out and just think "he's at work" than when he was in our smaller city. Every time I'd hear sirens I'd pause when he was here.

Now I get worried mainly if he doesn't check in at some point during the night or if he's late coming home.

Or the worst is when I don't hear from him but the news is reporting a big fire with ff injuries when I get up in the morning.

Mainly I try to keep busy with the kids and temember that he's a safety freak.

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[amandakisser]

My husband is a detective on a drug task force and often needs to raid homes for drugs. I hate those days/nights and basically just wait for his quick "done" text. So I totally understand how you feel.

[W.T.Faulkner]

My fiancé's job isn't inherently dangerous, but he drives a LOT at strange hours (he's a musician and plays gigs almost every weekend about 2 hours from our home). He's on the road the most when the bars close, and I worry about drunk drivers constantly. It sucks, so I can't imagine how you feel. I'm sorry.

[amberlyrose]

We both used to be in, when in the military. He is now in a non-deployable, mostly office job now. I was so happy when that switch happened.

I'm sorry that you're feeling tense. It's never easy and that dreadful feeling is hard to shake off, even when you know they're okay.

[prettyinpearls]

My husband is a firefighter and I'm pretty good about not obsessing over the dangers of his job until he drives past my office building with lights flashing and sirens blaring. That's when I get all anxious. (My desk is right against the windows and I can see the top of the ladder on the truck from where my desks sits on the 2nd floor. If I hear them coming soon enough I can look down and see H driving the truck.) There's a local scanner app that I tune into on my phone and can usually get a good idea of what kind of call they're on, but I never feel 100% better until I hear "Truck 1 en route to Station 1".

He calls religiously between 9:00 and 10:00 at night when he's on shift to check in and tell me goodnight, so if I don't hear from him and I don't get an answer when I call, then I worry.

[georgeharrison]

Dangerous in a different way, but yes. My husband builds scaffolding and recently had a fall on the site. He was tied off, thankfully, because he was about 50 feet up and would have been in big trouble otherwise. I use to not worry, until this recent fall and now I do moreso. He told me once that if I get a call from him office that he has fallen to expect that he is dead. Thankfully his office didn't call this last time, since he didn't get hurt, he was able to call me himself. I was still rattled the rest of the day, though.

[youhadmycuriosity]

Yes, military. The worst was 3 months of no contact, no knowledge where he was, and no knowledge of when he would return. The other wives and I pretty much swore off watching the news and liked to imagine that the platoon was just using the "no contact" time to drink beer on a beach somewhere. But, FUCK did I panic every time I had an unknown number show up on my phone. Hope your H is just fine, I know it's so tough when you can't call just to put your mind at ease.

[jillybean222]

H is a firefighter. He's higher in rank now (Captain) so he is usually running command from outside burning buildings. Back when we met (before kids) I used to think it was so cool that he went in to fires. Now I say, F that, stay outside and tell everyone else what to do. Honestly though, if the shit hits the fan I know he's going in after his guys but I try not to think about it.

[bex1973]

Yes, although it's crazy to me that it is dangerous - he is a critical care paramedic. Works in the Detroit area so often goes in to shady situations. Not only worrying about what he might encounter on a call but also the getting to the scene - so many close calls due to people not yielding the right of way. I try not to obsess too much about it.

When we first got together he was also on the fire department, he has since retired from that.

[leeluu]

H is in a construction job where his mistakes can kill people, including himself. It's not on the scale of police or military though.