My husband's mother is gravely ill in his home country, and he wants to go back to care for her for several months. What about us here?

Support your husband's intention to serve his mother, but plan together so that the family here is not neglected. Caring for a frail mother is a great deed, and you too will feel relieved later that you did not stand in his way. Discuss the duration, the cost and who will help you here, for example close relatives or trusted neighbours. Make sure the monthly maintenance continues and important bills are arranged before he leaves. Set a daily call time with the children. Also ask whether his siblings there can take turns caring for her, so that the burden does not fall on one child alone. If you can, take the children to visit their grandmother. See devotion to parents.