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My wife and I work very hard for a living. I work from 9 am to 5 pm, whereas her shift starts at 4 pm and goes on till 1 am. So basically, as you can understand, we barely get to do anything together during the week.
Despite this, however, our relationship has always been very functional. We are supportive of each other's careers and run our household on a strict routine. I run all the morning errands, and she ensures that all the household logistics are taken care of during the day. We have a fixed schedule, but a major absence of each other's presence.
But this got better during the pandemic. The world going into isolation did a lot of damage, but for us it did one good, 'work from home'. Working together from home really brought us back close together. While in the first few months of lockdown we enjoyed doing everything together, and also managed to steal a kiss from one another between meetings, when things began opening up, my wife and I booked ourselves multiple workations where we'd travel around the country, work from our BnBs and chill over the weekend. This was definitely a start to a whole new friendship for us.
For the first time in our three years of marriage, we were not bothered about what to eat, when to clean, groceries or random bills. Instead we spent time guessing birds through the sound they made, plucking berries from trees, taking long walks in the woods and mountains and discussing our future.
Because we were happier, our performance at work also started improving. We were not slogging anymore and our marriage had become more than just fulfilling our duties. I had forgotten how much fun we used to have before life happened to us, and we relived the joys in doing little things together.
In the past two years, we have worked out of 15 different locations across the country and this has been the best and most adventurous part of our marriage. Thank God for pointing us in this direction rather than fuming over fate.
