Learning to Make Distance Work: What Families Across Sectors Can Teach Us Different industries have different cultures, working patterns, risks and resources. There are organisations doing excellent work to support employees and families in particular sectors, and some sectors have developed genuinely valuable resources over many years. Because the thing I am interested in isn't the sector. It is what happens to a family when work repeatedly takes one parent away from home. And how do families who have been doing this for years make it work?

Do you hate it when your husband travels for work? Not because you don’t love him. Not because you don’t support his career. Not because you don’t understand why he has to go. You hate what it does to your family. You hate the chaos when he packs, the chaos when he comes back. You…

For many years, I didn’t have the words to describe the life we were living. We weren’t a military family. We weren’t divorced. We weren’t in a traditional long-distance relationship. Yet for weeks, sometimes months at a time, my husband and I were parenting from different countries while trying to hold family life together. There…

Does your husband travel and is always gone for work? Do you feel exhausted? You may not say it out loud. It may not even be at the surface of your consciousness. But deep down, you feel it. You know that you are exhausted and that you are getting to the end of your strength. Here are three must-have strategies every home-based mum needs.

Choosing to take an unaccompanied tour needs careful consideration. This article encourages you to think about more than the assignment itself.

Long-distance relationships with kids involved require more than communication — they require emotional security, shared family identity, and intentional connection. Discover practical strategies for families where one parent works away from home through the Apart but Together resource centre for globally mobile and frequently separated families.