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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to take a two week international business trip next month.  DS is 6 and I am sad thinking about it.  He and I have  been a part a week at a time before.  Never 2 but we'll be ok.

Do what you need to do OP.

Lots of skype and lots of extra hugs be fore and after. [/quote]

Op here. DH has a two week business trip. I was going to go with him. The two weeks will be pretty intense, with events til 9 or 10 pm and so forth. We were going to go for some solo time after.

It's been 7 yrs since we have taken a trip internationally, although we did take 4 days to a resort a few years ago.

Our marriage is on the rocks and we thought this would help.

But I can't stomach being apart from the kids this long.

Its far enough away that it's not really worth going for just the week together. You'd barely get over the jet lag before it would be time to go home.

Glad to have the responses here. As outlandish as some of them were, I totally feel the same way. We bought the tickets a long long time ago when it was all very abstract... As the dates get closer, I wake up in the middle of the night stressing about it. [/quote]

OP sounds like you need the trip together and I wonder if bailing out might hurt your DH?  Could you meet your spouse there for 7-10 days after (so kids would not be without you for 3 weeks) or meet somewhere "in the middle" for 5-7 days. [/quote]

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