Raising a Family When Your Partner Travels: A Life With Frequent Business Travel and International Moves
Flor Bretón Garcia shares how she and her husband navigated years of frequent business travel, while also moving internationally. Her children are grown up and she travels now with her husband.
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A 3-Step Strategy Guide When One Parent Works Away
How to build a connected family life when one parent works away - a 3 part strategy
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Balancing Frequent Work Travel and Family Life
Andrea Schmitt shares how a job that requires frequent travelling can be possible with kids In episode #88 of Holding the Fort Abroad, we talk with Andrea Schmitt, clinical psychologist, expat coach, and founder of Global Girl Coach. Having experienced life as both an accompanying spouse and holding the fort parent, Andrea understands first-hand what…
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Loving Across Borders: How to Use the 5 Love Languages in Your Long-Distance Relationship
Living apart for work or global mobility? Discover how the five love languages can help couples stay emotionally connected in long-distance relationships across borders and time zones. Right now, my husband is in Mexico and I’m in the UK. Which means a lot of our marriage and parenting currently happens on WhatsApp: think messages, photos,…
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6000 Miles Apart: Successful Long-Distance Relationships
Navigating life 6000 miles apart? Discover how families manage long-distance parenting, frequent business travel, and co-parenting challenges—while maintaining connections across distance, strengthening parent-child relationships, and building resilient family culture across borders.
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Diplomatic Life and the Untold Realities of Distance
Being a diplomatic spouse isn’t all travel and glamour — it’s a life of constant change, resilience, and community-building across borders. In Holding the Fort Abroad Episode 80, I talk with Anna Skorobogatowa: mentor, diplomatic spouse, and founder of Not Just a Spouse, about what it really takes to hold a family together through absences, evacuations, and long-distance life abroad.
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Split location families can build a strong unit
Families where one partner is away a lot for work or is living and working in another country for long periods don't often realise they are under more pressure than families who don't have this lifestyle.
However, I truly believe that split location families can build a strong unit, be a happy family with happy individuals even when living apart. I have witnessed families who are living this reality.