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Izzy, welcome to the program.

Hi, Dr. Laura. It's an honor to speak with you.

Thank you. What's happening?

Well, I am calling just with kind of a general question, I guess. I'm

struggling with maybe feeling selfish for asking my husband to change jobs or to not pursue a,

you know, a dream job that takes him away from the family.

How old are you? How old is he? How long have you been married?

I'm 27 and he's 32 and we've been married for seven years. And we've got two kids, a five-year-old

and an eight-month-old. And what is his daily schedule?

So he spends 90 days or more sometimes out of the country,

and then he'll get to spend 30 days at home.

Why did you marry somebody who has this kind of career in the first place?

Well, he did not have the career when we were married.

So before you were married, what did he do for a living and what was his schedule then?

When we were first married, he was a first responder, so he worked like 24 hours

at a time, and then he had 48 hours off. He was a firefighter. So was this in the fire department?

Yes. Okay. And then when did he go international? And how did that come about and tell me of the discussions you two had about that?

So he started, he kind of started like traveling for work around the COVID pandemic.

He started traveling, helping out in New York when everything was pretty bad.

And then it kind of just escalated from there.

But this most recently, after we had our youngest baby, I was just kind of burnout.

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