"I’m sure there are good ones out there, but I haven’t been lucky enough to have found one."

"Now, I feel like I have a good relationship with my partner, but I think that is entirely because we chose not to have kids. If we did, it’d be a different story."

"I was with a professional musician for seven years. We lived near Austin, TX. I very much enjoyed watching him play and meeting so many other amazing musicians. Very spoiled in that aspect. Did not enjoy when he’d be gone for weeks, sometimes over a month, on tour. Also, he got good enough to do national tours, and those fans were wild! They went nuts just trying to touch his shoes on stage. He cheated a lot and wasn’t strong enough to turn away the groupies. On his last tour, he just never actually came home. They always have to be the main character and act like cheating is a given."

"Ultimately, it’s not that bartenders themselves are inherently incapable of being good spouses — it’s that the low pay, high level of stress and danger, and inevitable late hours are generally not conducive to maintaining a stable relationship."

"There’s a badass mentality, and so many struggle to turn it off after work. My husband would come home and treat me like an inmate. We had a serious discussion, and he requested a change in location in the prison, which has made a difference."

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