I certainly would go for it - it's not like you are making a permanent life change, you are just doing something temporarily to help your financial situation. Some people have to do things like that just to have a job, and they do it on a permanent basis, so in that respect you are lucky that he can do it for a period of time and then going back to his self employment. I think it is a win win situation. Many years ago, my husband had to relocate 3 months before my daughter and I joined him. It was about 6 hours away. We managed to see each other every other week or so and it was just fine. In fact, those "reunions" were pretty special