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How emergency work strains family relationships

I work at the emergency operations center and during the last hurricane I stayed for seventy-two hours straight coordinating rescue while my own neighborhood flooded and I could not reach my family and now my wife says I care more about strangers than my own children.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You gave everything to help strangers in a crisis, and now your family feels like they came second.

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