A man who has been away from his wife for the best part of a month?

Have you been away from your wife this long before?

But do you understand that I have been away from my wife for many months?

He'd been away from his wife and family for more than a year.

To go away from my wife and daughter for a month over curtains?

This labor is plain hard work that takes me away from my wife and children.

Hard to make a man stay away from his wife and kids that long.

He had been away from his wife and family for nearly two weeks now.

What could be so damned important as to take her husband away from his wife and children?

I was less than a dozen feet away from the President and his wife.