NO matter how much you might love them, if you had to go weeks without seeing or speaking to anyone but your partner, things might get a little fraught.

A farmers wife from Skenfrith who has experienced the type of isolation prevalent in rural communities set up a website for others in the same situation and has been blown away by the interest her scheme has generated.

And now following appearances on BBC’s Countryfile, Chloe Williams has been nominated for the Countryfile Farming Hero 2018 Award.

Chloe launched the website, ‘The Crazy Life Of a Farmer’s Wife’ in 2015 when scrolling through a farming forum on Facebook where she came across a post from a young women who wrote that she had found herself following a tractor as she was obsessed with the thought of marrying a farmer.

There were lots of replies from farming wives, warning this girl that the life of a farmer’s wife isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

One wife told about how she had spent her birthday assisting a vet with a C-section on one of her cows, another remembered spending an anniversary moving electric fencing in a thunder storm.

Chloe said, ‘I sat and I read each post and I laughed and I welled up, because I knew exactly where these women were coming from.

‘Don’t get me wrong, there are so many pros to living on a farm but I have missed special occasions due to the lifestyle that I chose. I too know how it feels to rarely see my husband when the sun is shining and there’s straw to bale.

‘But above all of this on that very day I had sat with my mum and my sister and cried, about how lonely I was.

When Chloe’s first baby, Hugo, came along, the remoteness and relentlessness of farming life fully hit home, she said, ‘I suddenly felt completely isolated. I went along to baby groups in town and I spoke to a few other Mums but I never really hit it off with anyone.

I kept asking, ‘Where are all the farmer’s wives around here? Surely there are women in this area feeling the same?’ A place to share our stories, funny and sad.’

A quick search on social media revealed that in the UK there were not any groups for rural wives and mothers and so Chloe created the website, ‘The Crazy Life Of a Farmer’s Wife’ - and was stunned by the response.

‘We soon hit fifty, and then a hundred, I was astonished, suddenly there were women from all over sharing their stories. Before I knew it hundreds turned to thousands and now there are over 4,000 farmer’s wives and partners and 5 new requests to join every day.’

Chloe’s website is at www.crazyfarmerswives.com and Chloe will be attending the Monmouthshire Show on Saturday, July 7 where she hopes to meet as many other Crazy Farmers Wives as she can.