One common factor with out professions and one behavior I noticed specifically in the airlines. The first one is that we're just away from home so often that it puts a strain on relationships. That same thing happens with military, medical, and others who's jobs keep them from home.

The other is built upon what I said above, but some pilots make that time gap even worse. You only get so many days off a month, so you need to make the most of them. Pilots, especially those in the majors, are very driven career-wise. They spend their time at corporate jobs and regionals working themselves to the bone to get the time they need to move on. At the majors they can finally take a breath and enjoy their time off...except many of them don't. They look at the paycheck and work to make that number bigger, they take every overtime trip they can, and they keep working not realizing what kind of affect its having on their families.

I'm just about at my first year into my current company. The amount of people I've had giving me advice saying "you can make more as a first year FO than a CA makes". It's like, yeah if you spend all your time at work and do nothing on the homefront. But that's the mentality a lot of people have. Keep working and make money. When I talk to these same guy about their divorce its always the same excuse. "They just grew apart" or something like that when really they intentionally spend all their time at work and neglected their relationships. This job is already hard on the family, but a lot of guys make it worse for a better paycheck.