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[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]

If you can get home once and they can come out there once, things will be fine.  Actually, they will be fine even if you don't get a personal visit in those 3 months. Your DH and kids will get into their routine and, honestly, it will probably be harder on you than on them.  I don't mean that in a disparaging way![/quote]

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