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[quote=Anonymous]You all are being ridiculous.  Life is really long, and your kids have years to develop a relationship with you.  In the grand scheme of things, 3 months is nothing!

Also, I'm not sure kids that age actually have anything resembling an accurate sense of time.  I left on a research fellowship for three months when my kids were in middle school, and once left for a week to go to a wedding when my kids were 1 and 2, and I think the week was harder because kids at that age have no sense of object permanence.  They may honestly not know if you are ever coming back.

My kids understand that adults sometimes have responsibilities that mean they will leave the home -- Daddy gets deployed and mommy goes to conferences and on research trips.  We are currently contemplating breaking the family in half and doing a commuter marriage for our careers, which will surely have you clutching your pearls but the kids are actually pretty excited about it.   I think it makes kids more resilient, more comfortable with themselves and taking risks and aside from the fact that my oldest daughter got her first period when I was gone for a couple of months and my husband had to deal with it, it's all been fine.  (The period, however, that was a lot.)

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