To not want MIL to take DS to the other side of the world for 6 weeks

[MSDP]

My DP thinks I am being unreasonable to not want his mother to take my son away to their home country for six weeks when he is two years old.

My son has a good relationship with his GM and she is capable of looking after him, however I am not comfortable with her taking my son for so long to a place more than 12 hours away. This place has is in South America and is not renowned for being the safest place in the world and my son has never been away from me for me than 2 nights so am I being unreasonable?

At 2 years he is not old enough to appreciate the experince other than suffer anxiety at being separated from his primary carer for 6 weeks without having the intellectual/emotional maturity to understand why.

I wouldn't stand for this if it was one and a half months in Cornwall never mind Columbia.

It's not actually about you, your DH or MIL when it comes down to it - quite frankly I think its cruel to your child, so for me it would be "over my dead body - end of discussion".