My partners family are over sea's from door to door it's a 15+ hour journey including flight then car journey.
He is missing his family terribly, hasn't seen them for 3 years due to the pandemic. I have been supportive and I speak with his family nearly every other day sending
Grandparents pics, videos, sending gifts ect, and trying to boost him as much as I can. I support us going over but not separately....read on and you will see why!
The other night he told me he is booking off the 6 week holiday next year come what may and going, I can only get 2 weeks off so he said I can either come later so we all travel back together or not come at all....
He said it will be good for our child, however....myself and my child who is 5 have never been separated, I don't think my child will cope well on the long haul flight wearing a mask and going without me, we are very close and we are never apart.
Our child is currently dealing with a stress induced stutter from returning to school, and our child is very shy, I fear that a new country away from home for 6 weeks and away from me isnt fair and I actually told him its cruel....plus his brother is on the sex offenders list and lives yep downstairs in the basement of his Mothers house. During our blazing row I said why would you even stay in the same house without me, with him downstairs...his answer "he wont come up". NOT GOOD ENOUGH
I suggested he goes for 2 weeks first, then myself and our child fly out for 2 weeks and then we all travel back together. 2 weeks is better than nothing! We usually have a big party when we are there and we can see everyone. We dont need to isolate just test.
They will both need a week or so to recover and get ready for school again in September anyway to get over the jet lag.