Tag: shift work

  • Supporting a Resident Spouse

    Supporting a Resident Spouse

    Your spouse is due home after a night shift and the house needs to be dark, quiet and stocked with food. How to support a spouse in residency comes down to protecting sleep, easing food and chores, and keeping contact light. Each action below follows the call and night-shift rhythm, so a partner can pick…

  • Night Shifts and Marriage: Sleep, Schedules and Staying Close

    Night Shifts and Marriage: Sleep, Schedules and Staying Close

    One partner leaves at dusk while the other wakes alone, and that is night shift and marriage in miniature. The fix is to treat daytime sleep as a shared project and to book fixed time together around it. This guide treats nights as a sleep and rhythm problem for two people, with moves for the…