How much would it bother you to be away from your dh/dp for four weeks?

[emkana]

I won't see dh for 4 weeks in the summer. A friend said that must be really hard - but while I am going to miss him, it really doesn't bother me that much. Am I normal?

I don't know what is normal..is there such a thing ?

But i would miss my dp lots. But everyone is different.

Wouldn't bother me either. We can be abnormal together.

I'm with you - DH often works away Monday-Friday, weeks at a time sometimes. Doesn't bother me much at all - glad to see him on a Friday but I am also glad of the time to myself.

I would miss mine

He is working away for 3 weeks just now, home at weekends. Doing EVERY morning - kids out to school etc - is a bother. Doing EVERY bedtime - worse!!

He does it all when he is back, but it is a bit constant,

I have such a huge amount of respect for single parents!

If it was me that was away I wouldn't mind but if it was him then I'd be bothered

I think it would bother me more if dh was going to be away, but I'm going to be at my mum's, back home in Germany, and I'm really looking forward to it.

Everyone is different, as long as both parties are happy then fine. I personally would hate it... but then I would have to empty the dustbin and I don't DO bins

Depends on who has gone away. I can do ten days if I'm off visiting friends back home. Not as much fun if he's the one, off climbing a mountain with his buddies.

He complains a lot after I'm gone just two or three nights. "I didn't marry you to be a part from you!"

He also works from home a lot so we're always together. Think he'll keep that up once the baby comes?

I'd go nuts.My dp has gone out with his mate tonight and has just phoned to say that he'll catch the late bus home so that I won't have to sleep alone(I don't sleep much when he's not here).
Sad aren't I!

HAH Weegle! Poor cat wouldn't get her litter changed, either. No, best they stick close to home.

Depends, if its because im going away to visit people i like then, no it doesnt bother me! I did it last winter and loved it.

And I did think god what does this mean, is this normal??
lol

MY DH HAS JUST GONE AWAY FOR 10 DAYS TO USA WITH MY BROTHER TO SEE A CAR THING!!! I'M MISSING HIM MORE THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD.. WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO BED ON MY OWN, NO SNORING, BUT AM FINDING IT REALLY HARD TO SLEEP ;.[

Emkana you're going to be at home, like I was, which is why we both felt ok about it (hopefully)

nah doens btoehr me

I do this emkana as well - dh will join us for a week, I"ll stay on with the kids for another month. It's hard, I will of course miss dh, but it's worse for him as he won't see the kids. They will miss him terribly. But I really need to be home and spend that time with my family. That's just the case when we live in different countries, it's just what we do!

Also the first 3 years of our relationship dh and I had a long distance relationship and didn't see each other for weeks at a time, so we're kind of used to it.

I have a LDR with my bf, saw him in Dec, then May won't see him until July (2 weeks in Texas ) then maybe October? It's hard but I have no choice.

Not at all, really. We're well past the first flush of 'I can't live a moment apart from youuuuuu!'

Leaving the toddler - now that would be a totally different call..

I used to do it a lot when I lived in Asia - would go home for 5 or 6 weeks.

Now we are closer I still go home without DH but it is harder now as DS misses him and vice versa.

norkmaiden.How long you been together?
Dp and I have been together for 14 yrs in oct and we still find it hard being apart.
Are we sad or what

It would bother me alot!

I'd miss him for the handing over of the kids in the evening and I wouldn't be able to go out to gym/with mates etc if he wasn't about for that length of time, which may grate a bit.....but we have happily survived two weeks without him whilst he was away with work, and the kids were perfectly well behaved until he came back

Umm, 8 years, married for 5 of them.
Don't get me wrong, I'd rather be with him than not with him. But he's working away Mon-Fri atm and it's no problem at all. Gone are the days when I'd hyperventilate if I hadn't spoken to him for a few hours

when I lived in BIrmingham I didnt mind at all living up here completly different I hate it I just want company all the time !!!

my DH goes away for 5 weeks this summer and I am already nervous!!

I think it all depends on whether you've got a good support network - friends family etc. mY DP works away all week, sometimes for fortnights, but comes home most weekends. Doesn\t really bother me now, as I live in a really friendly community and know everyone, though bedtime is dead hard! It was MURDER while we trying to conceive though. Had to do artificial insemination in the end and I'm not joking.