I have travelled for work 2 & 3 nights so far and will have to do four in a couple of weeks and then two weeks beginning of Juky but probably coming home for weekend.

To be honest I don't find it too bad, I worry how they are doing and I miss them but I don't really think about them that much - I am not that great at focusing on two things at once so working I am all work, home I am all home. I don't speak to them etc while away - I might email or send a pic to DH to show them but have found that trying to talk confuses them and causes more grief for whoever looking after them. For me it is just in my nature, I live other side of world from my parents and sister, my mum lived other side of world from hers and dad lived hours from his - so just not a family that requires much contact. DH is the same really - pre kids I travelled alot and neither of us feel much need to have much contact when apart. We are both quite out of sight out of mind. People are all different though I have worked with people who speak to the other halves multiple times a day on phone travelling or not - if DH phoned me or vice versa I would be really worried something bad had happened.

I also know that the travelling for me is likely to be short term with this contract - as without support of mum who is off back to UK after it, I am not sure I could leave the kids with DH on his own for more than a day or two (not while he is working full time anyway).