I thought I would try to address one of the things that I have been asked lately and that is “What is it like with your husband being away?”

I guess the easiest way to answer this question is it’s hard but it is hard to each person of our family differently. Our two oldest girls of course understand it a lot better than our son and youngest daughter, they understand that he is away to help bring money in so that we can have nice things and live where we are and they like that (as all children do cause if there is no money then it means no present) well that’s there thinking anyway, our son though as he is only a year and a half old doesn’t understand it the same way, he knows that dad is away but nothing else really. We sit and explain it to him but he won’t fully understand until he is older and our daughter well she has it pretty easy only being 2 and a half months old but it still effects her because she has a bond with her dad and misses him even if she doesn’t realize it and it’s hard on my husband and I, we have been pretty much been inseperable since we started our relationship almost 3 years ago other than when we have gone to work during the day so it is a big adjustment to each and everyone of us.

I have been asked “How do you help them cope?” and the way we help our kids is by explaining we don’t like to treat the kids like they shouldn’t understand, we like to treat them like little adults and explain the situation to them and 9 times out of 10 they understand. The other way we help is almost every day we make sure they have some form of contact with their dad whether it be a video/voice call or even us sending a video saying good night so that they are getting to keep that contact there as much as possible.

I hope this helps anyone else that may be wondering what it’s like to have a partner away from home.

Talk again soon CC ❤