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Should We Take an Unaccompanied Tour? How Foreign Service Families Decide

Choosing to take an unaccompanied tour needs careful consideration. This article encourages you to think about more than the assignment itself.
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Long-Distance Relationships: Are You Building a Shared Life or Living Parallel Lives?

One of the biggest risks of long-distance relationships and couples who spend time apart is slowly becoming two people who live separate lives.
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How to Remain Connected and Resilient Through Crisis and Separation

What to do when a crisis strikes across physical miles. You are in a long-distance relationship or working far from home.
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3 Essentials to a Successful Long-Distance Relationships

How to stay strong as a couple when often apart Long-distance relationships are a vast and complex topic, shaped by many different layers of experience and circumstance. They include the emotional and practical effects of distance on the couple relationship, as well as the challenges and opportunities of coming back together after time apart and…
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Long-Distance Relationship with Kids Involved

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.
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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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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.