Anna, i know only to well how hard it is to be seperate from your Dh for longish periods of time as i have been doing this since Christmas 2006. We are all back together now and we will NEVER go through that again, we only did it because we had no other options at the time.

My children are 2 & 5 and it had a huge impact on them not to mention myself. It's hard trust me, what got me through was knowing that it was only for x amount of time before we would be back to normal.

I think deep down you have made your mind up....you want to head back to Sydney and i can fully understand why. I also think you need to listen to the reasoning behind why you DH might not want you to go.

Whatever you decide i hope everything works out well for you in the end.