Emma's sad
My husband is an attorney, and left yesterday morning for a trial out of town. He'll be back Thursday...Emma took one look at the suitcases and us scrambling around, and put on her sad face. She's been really clingy with me, and is acting just generally strange for her. Typically, she wants to be in the same room as us, but on the floor chewing a bone or playing with a toy, or at the other end of the couch-so she's near but not ON us. Since he left, she wants to be in my lap or right up next to me, except eariler when I was doing chores and running around, and then she went in our bedroom by herself and laid on the floor by my side of the bed, in the dark. She's NEVER done that. I would expect her to get up into bed and snuggle under the covers, but never on the floor.
All she wants to do is follow me around and sleep and snuggle, and she's being very watchful of the door and what's going on outside, giving low growls and the occasional warning barks at people outside. She doesn't really want to play-not sure if she just misses him or thinks I'm not as good of a playmate as he is
since I don't "roughhouse" the way he does. I tried telling her that "Daddy is coming back", but all she does then is go look for him at the door and whine. I feel so sad for her, but I don't know what to do for her.
Does anyone else have a spouse that travels for work? Anyone have any ideas of what to do for her?