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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad had to travel for work when I was a kid, and I have tons of memories of my mom and I tagging along. I know plenty of people today that do the same thing with their spouses. So all those suggesting that business travel should never include a spouse are I think a little off base.

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That's nice that your dad worked in an industry where it was appropriate for you and your mom to tag along.  That is not the case with travel for all industries.   My husband was an active duty Marine for 23 years.   He often had to travel for work (for much longer than 12 days), and we (my kids and I) did not tag along.   It was not appropriate for the type of work he was doing.   Same with the type of work OP is doing.[/quote]

Huh?  Also active duty spouse here and have tagged along.  I'm a frequent traveler anyway and made my own arrangements and basically saw DH in the evenings for dinner.  I've visited him during deployments - obviously not combat ones - before.  Nothing inappropriate about it.  It's not like the military can stop me from traveling wherever I feel like, that's kind of a bizarre thought process.

OP, if your husband pays his own airfare and hotel room and knows he'll be without you most of the time, it's fine for him to come.  But he would have to see it as a vacation by himself where he would just maybe run into his wife a few times.  I would not make ANY plans with him.[/quote]

I'm the top quoted PP and this was exactly what I was getting at. There's a whole wide range of expectations here. If OP's DH is expecting to hang out with her and the kids all day, I definitely understand MB/DB being a bit uncomfortable with that (though if they know DH well maybe they won't care about that, who knows!). But if DH is conscious of the fact that you're there to work, and is cool doing his own thing then it could work fine.[/quote]

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