a job transfer that takes an employee away from their family for an extended period of time

be transferred far away from home, take a post far away from one's family

a family, a household

separated; apart

the state of being separated

being alone / being without a family of one's own / someone without a family

taking up a new post

to take up a new post

father / (by extension, figuratively) a father figure (male initiator or founder of something) / (Christianity) God, the Holy Father

(archaic) one's own father