# Maritime career and family life/relationships? **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [April 15, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/maritime-career-and-family-life-relationships/1449 "2009-04-15T15:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Shellback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shellback](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Shellback)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/maritime-career-and-family-life-relationships/1449/11 "2009-04-24T15:21:45Z")
The effects are all over the place Anthony…For me, I’ve been either a trucker or a sailor my whole adult life…I just like to travel… I had an early marriage that didn’t make it…my current one has gone a little over 16 years…The reason is , that I married an independant woman…Sometimes too independant…She gets use to running things then I come home and want to have a say…I’ve learned to pick my battles…lol… The quality time I have at home is 10 times better on this 14/14 than when I was gone 3-5 days in a row…But also it has alot to do with me being happier on the water than I ever was on land…Doing what you want to do is a big part of the success… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/maritime-career-and-family-life-relationships/1449)._