It’s important that the homecoming parent takes full ownership of their tasks as a relief to the mental lad carried by the parent who stayed behind.
The traveling parent needs to stay engaged and to find practical ways to help from a distance.
If you’re the traveling partner, avoid playing the part of the fun parent because diving into the more tedious parts of caregiving is in your best interests.
How can you stay close when one of you travels a lot for work? The moment your partner walks through the door it is chaos. Your children are overjoyed, but you feel a strange blend of love and relief, mixed with resentment.
Because caring for your kids while your partner is travelling is nothing like single parenting. You aren’t raising your children on your own, with all of the emotional and financial consequences. You still have someone to talk to when you’re feeling down, and you share the bills and a home.
