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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly OP one trip will not change your marriage. One date night a week will. You need to put in more time to your marriage on a regular basis, not take long vacations (where he is working 10+ hours a day there). Seriously, do you think it's good for you to be there too for the hour or so per day? He will be working on who knows what while you get to sight see, relax, etc. I would think that may cause some jealousy in itself.[/quote]

Amen[/quote]

But with a marriage on the rocks--[b]him going alone seriously may and probably will be the straw that breaks the camels back.[/b] OP is trying to hold on to her husband sounds like--what a difficult position--I could totally see myself doing the same thing even though it might be futile.[/quote]

If things were so bad that I didn't think my DH could go away on a business trip for 2 weeks without my marriage completely collapsing, I would throw in the towel right there and then. Seriously?[/quote]

OP here. Nothing that melodramatic as either posting. It has been a really hellish year for us, and it just keeps getting worse. There is no end in sight. I don't think this trip is some magic wand. I don't think I even want to go. I think about cancelling every day. I ahvent changed my tickets yet and may just cancel. [/quote]

I'm a PP who has never left her children without a parent for more than 5 days (and my youngest is 12, LOL). I think 2 weeks is much too long to leave a 2-year-old and 3 weeks is outrageous. Obviously sometimes outrageous things have to happen (because of death or serious illness, deployment etc) and we have to do the best we can. But IME, a vacation, no matter how needed, doesn't cut it.

That said, I think you should go for those 10 days. Even though you don't really want to. It sounds like you really need a break from regular life.[/quote]

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