Every once in a while, Kris and I will be talking with friends and Kris will tell a story about work that I have never heard before. At that moment, I feel like I have caught him in a lie. I mean, it’s not a lie, but it’s an omission of the truth, right? I feel annoyed that our friends are hearing something that I was not told first (yes, I am that much of a brat). Today I found out why Kris leaves out certain details of his job when he calls:
We were enjoying a flirty text conversation on our cells (Kris has been gone for two months, I'll take what I can get), when Kris told me that he hadn’t slept in 20 hours because they had a diver emergency. Since I asked, he let me know that a diver had a seizure in the water and they had to jump the standby diver to go get him out. Kris had to replace the original diver in order to finish the job. It wasn’t until we said our goodbyes that I started to mull over the scenario. Now I am sad because I remember how easy it is for Kris to get hurt at work. Plus, he won’t be home for 18 days, so I have over two weeks left to worry about him.
The lesson I learned is to trust Kris’ instinct not to tell me horror stories about his job because he knows how easily my imagination goes wild. I told him that he is not permitted to have any seizures. He has accepted my demand.
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