The image of the long distance trucker brings to mind a sort of highway cowboy, a loner who moves from place to place, delivering his load across the country. Many of these drivers are on the road for weeks at a time, over three hundred days a year. Yet, many of them have a devoted spouse and children waiting for them to come home when their schedule allows. What kind of person [most often a wife] sits by the phone or watches the driveway, waiting for a few hours with her husband, only to watch that rig head back out on the highway a short time later? This thesis examines the interdependence of these women in light of their lifestyle in an effort to determine how they maintain such an independent perspective while keeping their marriages intact.