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how many women do you think would tollerate dating or marrying a pilot who's gone half the time? It's not as bad as being a Navy wife but it's still not the regualar 9-5 thing and I'm sure some girls couldn't handle it. Also is the devorce rate more due to the woman being sick of him being away all the time or is it the males doing somthing stupid on their trips away?
[/ QUOTE ] There were a few things that I didn't want in a husband and one of them was a military lifestyle or someone that would be working 70 hours a week. Marrying a pilot wasn't as big a deal. Being a pilot's wife will be hard, but it will have rewards, the most important one being that he is doing something that he loves so he will be less likely to be a miserable ass when he is home.
Time apart can also make the time you have together more, um, passionate. And when you think about people with 9-5 jobs, plus an hour or so of commute, plus a lot of them work at home, by the time they get home and eat dinner and wind down it's bed time. And Saturadys' are usually spent mowing and cleaning and such. So you really don't have any really good days together. I think we will get a lot more quality days together when he has 10 or so days in a row off. Plus I won't ever be working outside the home so my schedule will be open for when he is home.
Of course from what I hear there are 9-5 typs jobs at places like SkyWest where you do one trip there and back and that's your schedule. So you could be a pilot and still have a regular schedule if you got on with them. You have to watch out for the um, uneducated women who think being a pilot's wife is a glamourous money load cause they are only seeing $$$. I haven't met anymone like that but I know they are out there.
As far as the ring goes. I bet that a lot of guys that say they get hit on more once their married just didn't notice a lot of the women that were dropping subtle hints before they were married. Once you are married you learn to read the subtle little things women do so you might be more receptive to it now. You might also be seemingly unattainable which intrigues women. I just don't think that most women actually LOOK at your finger for a ring and THEN hit on you. They might actually just be being friendly as well and you think they are flirting. A married man is less of a threat, someone you could be comfortable having a converstaion with without the fear of him asking for your number. Perhaps the women just feel more open to you without that threat, and aren't really hitting on you.
Maybe things are different where I live, cause the only person that has ever hit on my husband was a Tony Roma's waitress who even got him a drink and didn't even ask me what I wanted, and then helped her self to a tip when I didn't leave one. Other then that, Corbin doesn't generally strike up converstations with people or get himself into situations that he would be hit on. And no it's not like he's ugly and that's why so maybe he just can tell the difference between friendly chit chat and flirting.