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Traveling away from the kids - do you miss 'em? (sh.itjust.works)
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I travel quite a bit for work, and my kids are 1 and 4. Sometimes I can't wait to get away from the house of toddler chaos and get to a bed where I can just sleep blissfully alone. But once I see their faces on video chat from my hotel room I miss them so much and just want to go home.

Give me another week at home however and I'm itching to get out of there again. Anyone else feel this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, I'm the bad dad. I can go about five days before I start to miss mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh man I was wondering if I was the only one who felt this way. Me and my childs mom are split up so sometimes on my weeks with my daughter I get very tired and frustrated towards the end and almost privately glad to be dropping her back off at her mothers. But then as soon as I leave and have an hour or so to myself I immediately miss her and wish she was back with me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Completely feel this way too. It's the quiet time after work when I'm back in the hotel room that I miss them the most

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Always, traveling solo is great but the video call at the end of the day always pulls on the heart strings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Shoot, my two are 5mo and 20mo, I go through this every day leaving the chaos behind in the morning to go to work with a deep breath of relief, and then missing them by around 2:00pm or so.