Would you work away from home for double your salary?

The other thing you need to think about is exit opportunities. If your husband took this job, would he have good experience to find another job locally after a year or two?

One thing that will be the killer is if the job is 9am Mon to 5pm Friday

Add the travel and the weekend is gone if the location is quite a way.

If there is a bit of flexibility so you can at least get 3 full evenings at home and 2 days it can be a lot more tolerable.

if he is in the same location fairly regularly and it is predictable and interesting he can build up the knowledge base so that you and the kids can have long weekends full weeks when there is no school.
The other advantage of this is hubby does not have to travel those weekends and that makes a big difference.

It also does not have to be hotels all the time which can get a bit soul destroying, sites like AirBnB have made accommodation options much easier to find, either short term room lets, apartments or even full houses.

Military families deal with this sort of thing on regular basis but if it is something you have never experienced in you life it can be little difficult adapting.

The up side is a couple of years of seriously good money could knock 5 years off retirement age.

You might find it helpful to monitor for the next week or so what the two of you actually do - e.g how much time does he spend with the childnre, how much do you rely on being able to spend time with each other to help you de-stress after the day, what other support do you have?

Also think about practuicalities for if he were working away. I don't know how old your children are, but you coul think about things such as using Sykpe or the equivalend t so he could read bdtime stories, or help with homework, even when he is away.

As well as the obvious issue with you having more responsbility and adult company in the week, think about how the change might make differences to your relationship. I know from talking to a riend whose husband had to start working away that one of thigs which they had not anticipated, and which did take a bit of discussion and adjustment, was that while he was away, there were things she had to deal with which would normally have been his responsbility, or which he had alway done in one way, and there were things where she took decisions and made minor changes to things aroud the house.

She said that for her, it didn't feel like a big deal, but or him, coming back and finding changes, it was quite difficult and he felt a bit sidelined, or that the changes were things she should have waited and done with him. (They were all quite small things, and mostly done for very practical reasons, like rearranging some storage becuase she couldn't reach, for instnace) but the net efect was that he was coming back and finding changes in his home, and changes to routines becuase she had haad to take over stuf he'd previously done.

She said that they did have a couple of rows about as, to her, if felt as though he wasn't there and then came back and was unreasonable and critical. She said that with hind sight they were both dealing with empotional reactions to the spearation and the changes it brought, but said that it might have been easier if theyd ben more aware of that beforehand. She said one thing which hlped was that she started to make a point of telling him about changes even if they were very trivial ones, so he was included and knew before he got home that things would have slightly changed.

I'm sure that each couplewould have diferent things which might trip them up, and that the impact would be less if you were only apart for the week, not for longer periods, but it is worth bearing in mind.