Since I live alone (except for an old, unpleasant, orange cat) I can't say that I dive to get away from home. It's more like a heroin addiction. I have to have my monthly fix, which is a week of diving along the Florda coast or the Keys, or I go into remission.
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We go a lot of places to dive, but we do continue to return to one place that we call home, CoCoView.
Escape from the every day reality is part of the role of a vacation whether it is for a week or but a few hours.
They say that staring at a fish tank is a calming thing.
We have three very pleasant cats at home. Maybe that helps, too.
bmcsteve
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For where I live and dive (Oregon), the dives are dependant on the tides and require a bit more planning. Plus since I dont own my own tanks, I usually have to go by the LDS the day before for air..... So diving at a whim, whether it be unpleasantness at home or for any other reason, is virtually impossible.... besides, if I took off diving without my wife, it would be way more than just "unpleasant" to come back home. 
I don't dive to get away from unpleasantness at home. But a secondary motivation for diving is getting out of the house -- My husband and I don't have a big social life, and we're likely to spend one evening after another just sitting at home and watching TV. I really enjoy packing up, going out and diving with friends, and maybe going to get a pizza after or something like that. Sometimes my husband comes with me, and sometimes he doesn't.
DiveMom1927
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I do this... And this is why I love diving!!! To tell you the truth. One of my main attractions to diving is that underwater I can escape from everything... Diving is like a thought, I am in control of my own self and I find it relaxing.... No body telling you what to do or where to go, no one honking at you or giving you a middle finger... I dont have to listen to stories of murder and theft off the news, Its just me and the water.... And my buddy of course... I say dont look at diving as an escape as a negative... Look at it positively, at least you have an amazing place to go!
jeffberry
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I dive cause the fish DON'T TALK BACK TO ME! Not really I go just for the sheer fun of it.
grassyknoll
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I think you have to ask yourself:
"Am I going diving for myself, or beacuse of others", is it an escape to or an escape from. I sometimes have a similair feeling that I am abandoning my wife and kids (well kid, one dives), to go diving. What I have come to realize though, is that I only feel guilty because diving is just sooooo damn rewarding.
Without anyone knowing what your situation, is I doubt there is that much advice to offer. If you didn't dive would you be finding some other reason to take off? If the answer is No, then my guess is you just love diving and are feeling a little guilty. Find a way to make those you are leaving behind "okay" with your departures and eveything will be cool.
"Am I going diving for myself, or beacuse of others", is it an escape to or an escape from. I sometimes have a similair feeling that I am abandoning my wife and kids (well kid, one dives), to go diving. What I have come to realize though, is that I only feel guilty because diving is just sooooo damn rewarding.
Without anyone knowing what your situation, is I doubt there is that much advice to offer. If you didn't dive would you be finding some other reason to take off? If the answer is No, then my guess is you just love diving and are feeling a little guilty. Find a way to make those you are leaving behind "okay" with your departures and eveything will be cool.
almitywife
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at work they already call my hubby the part-timer as they rarely see him... if he knew he could use diving to avoid the stresses of it, i would never get him to go to work!!!
scubapro50
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After a really hard day at work I tell people I need some "serious down time" ..... usually about 60 or 70 feet of down time somewhere in the Cayman Islands will do.
Don't get me wrong - I really, really love diving. But it's also true that, living in the Cayman Islands, there is not much else to do except hang out in bars watching sports on TV. So, I dive partly to escape all those weekend (or night) bar parties where everyone sits around watching other people play sports.
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