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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm dealing with something like this now with DH. His job is requiring him to travel more, and it's disrupting our family.

Up until now he was able to leave at 8:30 AM and be home by 5:15 PM. We split the cooking, as on Tuesdays and Thursdays I teach yoga. He helps the kids (10 and 8) with their homework, and then spends time with each of them after dinner before they fall asleep.

Now, however, his company is doing a QA initiative where he has to go on the road once a month to train people and assess their performance. He was gone Monday and Tuesday this week, missing the kids' bedtime. He also traveled Wednesday AND Thursday July 6 & 7. Yes, on the week of the FOURTH OF JULY!!!

His next trip is to attend a 2-day West Coast conference on a Tuesday and Wednesday. Get this--he wants to fly out the next morning rather than on the red-eye. The conference ends at 8:30 PM near the airport, so he can most certainly make an 11:30 PM flight. His work is willing to book him an extra night at the hotel and he claims he'll be exhausted, but he's not understanding that his CHILDREN NEED TO SEE HIM!!!

So I feel for you, OP. It's awful the way people just do not respect families, and worse when like husbands like yours and mine don't stand up and refuse to travel when telephones and Skype can work just fine.[/quote]

Yikes, PP. You sound spoiled. So he traveled July 5 & 6. I don't see why that is a big deal.
Yes, red eyes suck big time. He won't be able to see his kids. Do face time instead.
Since telephones and Skype can work just fine, please use them to keep in contact instead of grousing about it.[/quote]

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