Am so looking forward to a break from DH

[Ishani]

We've lived in each others pockets for the past three years, had a new baby, tons of stress and strain.
I'm just at the point where if he wasn't going back to working away full time and home at the weekends where I'd actually consider divorcing him, I'm sick of so many little things he does that make my life harder every day.
He'll be coming home at weekends which I'm told is tough so make or break I guess.
Any success stories of absence making the heart grow fonder ?

People need time to just be themselves rather than have to be someone else whilst around someone else.

It shouldn't be like that but we do sometimes have to put on a smile and do things when all we really want to do is sit on our arses and do nothing.

The break will do you good, you will be able to get in a routine without him around and hopefully the weekends will be good because you would have spent the week apart.

Ishani me and DH were doing the home at weekend thing from when we first got together, we got married and bought a house still with him only home at the weekends, the real hard thing was when he changed his job location and was able to come home everyday, we were in the situation you are in now, every little thing he did was annoying, ie walking past the coat hooks by the front door and hanging his coat on the edge of the door, dirty washing everywhere and not really thinking what he was doing. But that was 8 years ago, we now have 2 great (at times) DC, he has been working away for the last 3 weeks and we still have another 2 weeks before he comes home and I am missing him like I didnt think I could.
I hope everything works out for you.

I guess the prefect solution is wen things settle down again and he's out the house mon-fri 8-6 again but home every night, that's at least 4 months away though.
I have to say I am looking forward to some bits but will miss practical help :(

I hear you, but make sure you do work on your relationship at weekends if you want to stay married. We were in this situation, let things slide and ended up growing completely apart. Weekends and rushed phone calls just weren't enough to keep that connection and I think resentment built up on both sides.

That wasn't a success story, was it?! If you have supportive friends and family around you, that will help though. Mine were a long way away at that time.

One of my best friends relationships is like this, and they are still madly in love if that helps. They do the whole date night thing every so often, and try and make time for each other. It's not an easy option though.

I don't have any support at all I shall be here on my own :( With 4 children.
Oh dear this isn't the way forward i'd imagined things going from now onwards.