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How work travel creates impossible choices between providing and presence

I am a truck driver and I have not been home for my daughter's bedtime in three weeks, but if I do not take these long hauls we cannot pay her school fees. Every mile feels like I am choosing money over being her father.

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Economic necessity can force us into patterns that contradict our deepest values about what matters.

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