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Is your better half in the field?
Okay yeah this is a fluff subject but I wondering because after 16yrs of marriage I am single and its hard enough being a single parent of 3 kids Yes some fathers do take care of their kids and it seems that everyone I see who is happy in the job and a realtionship is with someone involved??? I don't most people outside dont understand why I could work a 14 hr shift on a ambulance and get home dead and the fire whistle blow and run out the door?? Just asking..Thanks..Now back to more important subjects besides my love life
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Permalink Reply by Becky Null on
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I was working for a private ambulance service when I met my now husband. I started working for a 911 EMS/Fire Service and he started working for teh coutny next to mine. In the past year, he came to the same county that I am at. Our zones are adjacent. If his station needs back up and vice versa, we will be there for the other. When we started working at the same department, we told each other that we are not married at work, we are only co-workers. It still suprised all every shift that we are able to do that. Those that don't know us, don't know that we are married. My chief even knows that when we are at work, we are two different people.
Being married and doing the same field has its pros and cons.
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Permalink Reply by Todd on
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My wife (then girlfriend) started out on the auxiliary. About 6 months after joining that she decided she wanted to give being a firefighter a try. She became fully certified, and was a decent firefighter. She gave it up when she became pregnant with our first son.
It helps that she has a fire service background. It gives me somebody I really trust to vent, and she can offer an educated insight into what course of action she thinks I need to take.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Sheldon on
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My wife is a teacher, though after 3 years without finding a job (Michigan economy:(, she has started working as a dispatcher. But she has no involvement with the fire department, and I don't think she has any interest in it. She loves being the "firefighter wife" and in my department, the wives are involved in a lot of activities.
I could definitely see the positive and negative sides of being with someone in the fire service... I am pretty bullheaded sometimes:)
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Permalink Reply by Joe Stoltz on
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Bumpo
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Permalink Reply by Brandy on
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My better half got me in the field and this is not a field i ever thought about beofre. I love it, My significant other is a paramedic and a firefighter. I just passed my firefighter1 and looking forward to gettting my EMT1 in the fall. I am also a single mother of 3 I have only been in my relationship for 11 months and in the service going on 10 months. So good luck and its good to hear a father taking care of his kids.
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Permalink Reply by Christy on
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I am happily divorced! lol My ex does not understand my passion for my job. My boys are 13 1/2 and 10 and both are counting down the months/years until they can become explorers in both fire and EMS. Dad isn't real happy about that.
As far as dating, I tend to date men in public service. I don't have much of a social life due to work and kids so it is really the only place I meet people. I also like the fact that they understand the crazy hours or the fact that I may be to busy to answer the phone when they call etc.
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Permalink Reply by brenda caldwell on
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My husband and I are both firefighters. I followed him into fire fighting best thing I ever did. It was harder for me not knowing what he was going through. It's hard for people not in this line of service to understand. I am the only one in my family to do this and he is the only one in his family to do this, so our familys think we nuts. Our oldest daughter is a firefighter and the other one is thinking of doing the same thing. Keep doing what your doing the right person will come along. way to go on taking care of your three children. Be safe.
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Permalink Reply by rfdjumper on
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My wife is not in the field, nor do I wish she was. For those that have a SO in the field I wish you best of luck.
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Permalink Reply by T.J. on
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My wife understands to a piont, she's a nurse at our local hospital, but I'm involved with fire/ambulance 24/7 with both my jobs so there times where we get at each other but who has not before, other than that its all good:)
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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on
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No, she is in the kitchen having coffee....we have a yard but not a field out back....LOl...Yes, I know...I can be an ass....have heard it before....Stay safe Brother and always keep the faith....Paul
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Permalink Reply by Matt Lutz on
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My girlfriend is an EMT and will be doing her firefighter training within the next year. I actually met her in my EMT class and we fell in love right away. I love her because I know that she understands what I'm doing. And exactly like you said, she doesn't get upset if I get back from a 14hr shift then run right back out the door for a fire call, she knows that this i my life and that if I am free to help, exhausted, relaxing or asleep, I will be responding. If I were to not respond to an incident I was physically able to and one of the guys in my department got hurt, I don't know how I would be able to live with myself. But, in short, yes. My girlfriend is in EMS and Fire.
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Permalink Reply by Allen Wahlstrom on
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In 25 years I have never dated another firefighter (while I was a firefighter). I did however date a Houston Firefighter for a short period of time, and that ended not because of the job, but two lives going in totally different directions.
My wife is a Physical Therapist and understands the medical end of the job, but has no interest in ever doing it either as a medic or firefighter, which is fine by me.
We work great, and both of us understand a little of the others responsibilities, but that is as far as shop talk goes at the house.
TCSS
Allen
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