Any of your SO’s stay up working late and it impacts home life? Is this normal for consulting?

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I’m in consulting working 7am-9pm most days, boyfriend works from 11a-12pm most days but he has a really hard time sleeping so he’s up until 2-3am every night then gets up at 10 to leave for work by 10:30a. I get really annoyed that he never comes to bed when he gets home and that i basically sleep alone, so I can see how someone who isn’t a night owl would be frustrated in a relationship with someone working late every night. So i started taking breaks in the late morning to cook us breakfast and we watch a 15-20 min tv show or something together before he leaves for work around 10:30. His career will always have him on this type of schedule and so will mine so we make it work.

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