Dating a workaholic is challenging, especially when you aren’t a workaholic yourself and haven’t had a history of dating workaholics.

When you aren’t a workaholic, you have a good amount of free time on your hands outside of work.

A partner that is a workaholic won’t be physically available to share this free time with you as much as you would want.

Instead of being out with you on a date at a favorite restaurant, or spending quality time with you at home, he is stuck at work.

This causes intense dissatisfaction when you aren’t a workaholic and find yourself constantly alone on your free time.

Figure out what you can tolerate.

Without doing this, you run a risk of dating a workaholic under a false impression that it is going to work out.

Being caught up on how good this guy makes you feel, you make yourself believe that you are capable of managing the drawbacks of dating a workaholic.

Unfortunately, as has plagued many in your current predicament, you live to regret your decision to date this workaholic.

The reality of your situation begins to set in.

You are no longer on the euphoric high you were on when you first met this guy.

That energy has now been replaced with a much stronger need for this guy’s company and attention.

When he isn’t present to meet your emotional needs, a resentment towards him develops.

This triggers fights within the relationship, as you complain about not seeing or hearing from him as regularly as you would like.

This workaholic tells you that you were aware of his workaholic behavior from the onset of the relationship, and wonders why you are suddenly complaining about it.

To this workaholic, his arrangement with you up until this moment was ideal.

Until now, you were adjusting your life to fit into his schedule, and he loved this convenience.

Unlike you, he doesn’t require anywhere near as much emotional stimulation or attention as you do.

As long as he gets to see you when he is available and his physical needs are met, he is content.

He is married to his work.

His work provides the bulk of what he requires emotionally.

In getting into a relationship with a workaholic who doesn’t make any changes to facilitate you into his life, you are never prioritized.

No matter how much you tell yourself that he is going to open his schedule to you, he doesn’t.

Why would he?

In choosing to get into a relationship with him, you have indicated that his workaholic behavior is permissible.

Don’t count on him changing this behavior.

A guy who has been a long-time workaholic, has created a lifestyle that is a substantial part of who he is as a person.

Being a workaholic is what he knows and is comfortable with.

He is addicted to the money that he makes in working longer hours than the average person.

If you are already questioning the wisdom in dating a workaholic, your instincts are informing you that you wouldn’t.

Listen to your instincts.

They are prone to be right.