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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand how a regular job can expect you to relocate for 3 months without frequent opportunities to come home, especially when you have young children. What line of work is this?
I'm saying this as a military spouse. What can be so encompassing that you can't tell them you need to come home every other weekend Friday-Monday? [/quote]

I can come home on the weekends, but when I'm at a job site in an area where it takes 2 hours to drive to the airport, plus the flight time, and then drive home from either Dulles or Reagan, and the only flight back requires me to leave pretty early on Sunday, it just isn't ideal.  I am going to come home at least once and my DH and the kids will come out there a couple of times.  It isn't something like Boston or Philly where I can get the late flight home after work on Friday and then the 6 am back Monday morning.  And I need to not be prepared and not exhausted come Monday morning.  The logistics are not good.[/quote]

I would make the weekend thing work. Even if all you do is come home and never leave the house from Friday/Saturday to Sunday, I would suck that up and make it happen.[/quote]

+1.  For 3 weeks DH was in a place across the country, with a connecting flight.  He came home late Friday night and did a redeye Sunday night to get back.  It sucked, but can't imagine him not coming back.  Come back every other weekend, take a Friday off a few times and just make it happen.   Your work will not be loyal to you, but your family will.  Treat your work and family accordingly.[/quote]

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