Steve Backshall and wife Helen Glover on family life

TV presenter and naturalist Steve Backshall and his skilled rower spouse Helen Glover are loving household life for the time being.

The couple had their first little one Logan again in July 2018 and have had a blast these previous 18 months. Though elevating their little boy has include its stressors. A lot of them coming from Steve having to work away a lot.

“The most important factor when Steve goes away, is realizing he’s lacking little moments,” says Helen. “However we’ve been actually lucky as a result of Logan has been so excited to see him when he comes again. Logan rushes over, he loves Steve being again. He hasn’t reached a stage the place he’s being moody that Steve has gone away.”

“I feel subsequent 12 months it’s nonetheless undecided how a lot Steve might be away, however he might be away for a part of it. It’s simply a type of issues. So many individuals undergo this, whether or not they’re within the navy or different jobs, or single mother and father, and it provides me perspective on what folks must do.”

“I’ve a lot respect for others as a result of I do know that after six weeks or so, Steve goes to return dwelling, and it’s not going to final eternally.”

He virtually didn’t come dwelling at one level final 12 months, nonetheless…

Steve virtually drowned throughout filming in Bhutan lately after a kayaking catastrophe struck whereas filming his present Expedition. He admits that it was one of many scariest issues he is ever confronted.

“It was definitely up there,” he confesses. “These items have a lot extra impression when you’re a dad. They actually do hit you more durable, since you’ve acquired far more to lose. I definitely had a fairly lengthy arduous reflective second after that, simply form of considering whether or not I needs to be on this profession in any case, or whether or not it was time to get out of it and do one thing fully completely different.”

“I’m a complete workaholic and all the time have been,” displays Steve. “For the previous 20 years, every little thing has been working in the direction of the job. So to start out a brand new profession when I’ve a household and all these commitments could be subsequent to unattainable, it might be an enormous step to take. During the longer term I must take that step however proper now shouldn’t be the proper time.”

“It’s so arduous, significantly now as a result of it typically feels that Logan ages a month in a day. A few of my expeditions have been six weeks, and I’m going away and he has gone from a child to a toddler and I really feel like I’ve missed out on that and it’s completely heart-breaking.”

The longer term appears to be like vivid for the household although, with each Steve and Helen realizing they’ll must gradual issues down a bit to juggle their skilled and private lives.

“It’s been actually powerful the final couple of years, however I feel we’ll attempt to discover a method between the 2 of us that we are going to discover some stability.”

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