He Wasn't There When I Woke Up

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My other half works as a door supervisor (bouncer), so he does late nights and sometimes isn't home until as late as 4am, but usually by 3am. Some time back, on a Saturday night, he went to work as normal, I hit the hay at around 11pm as I was quite tired (I don't generally tend to wait up unless there's some quality TV showing, which is rare!) and fell asleep right away. Some time later I rolled over to snuggle up to my man, only to wake with a jolt to find that he wasn't there. It was starting to get bright outside, I looked at the clock, it was 6am, I FREAKED completely out. I looked out the window, the van wasn't in the driveway. I picked up my phone and rang him - it rang 4-5 times before he answered 'hello'... I burst into tears 'thank God you're alive!'. It turned out that he got called to go to another job straight after his regular job as they needed some extra help with security at an event that was going on really late (or early whatever way you see it). I had been so worried as his job can be quite dangerous and he also has to drive 20 miles to get home on a fairly dangerous road, as far as I was concerned he was in a ditch somewhere or had been stabbed at work. Have you ever woken with a jolt to find your partner wasn't there and panicked? Have you ever seriously over-worried in a situation and everything was nowhere near as bad as you first thought?