Speaking from personal experience, my old man worked overseas for 24 years because of an opportunity he couldn’t get here(won’t say which country but it’s a 9 hr flight from SYD)…
Mum never complained and they spoke every day. Visited once or twice a year because us kids were young and had school.
I don't want to de-rail this thread, but how on Earth did you parents spend 24 years in a long-term relationship, with 1-2 per year visits, then go straight into living with each other 24/7. Surely with the end of that in-grained separation and person freedom, there'd be a murder within a few weeks of living back together every day as old folks?
It's pretty extraordinary isn't it.
I've worked away, I know what married men get up to (not saying they all do)
***But 24 yrs, if his old man didn't have one on the go I'm a monkeys uncle.***
No way I could do it.
I jokingly put that exact question to him last year over a beer not long after he came back back. Got a smack across the head and was told that without loyalty and commitment you may as well throw in the towel because your're only cheating yourself.
Say hello to your nephew monkey for me
