Confusing translation? 「不慣れな思いをするのは私一人で十分ですよ」


Taken from the linked short passage about living away from one's family for
work. I copied the trouble sentence below with the sentences immediately
before and after. <https://www.mlcjapanese.co.jp/n1_01_04.html>

田中さんは今後おそらく３年、最低でも２年は家族と離れ離れの生活を余儀なくされることになるわけだが、本人は至って前向きだ。「そりゃあ、本音を言えばさびしいですよ。でも、受験生の娘や病気がちな母のことを考えれば、不慣れな思いをするのは私一人で十分ですよ」と笑っている。家族の心配をよそに、一人暮らしを満喫しようと、早速料理の本を買ったそうだ。

I can't figure out the meaning of "受験生の娘や病気がちな母のことを考えれば、不慣れな思いをするのは私一人で十分ですよ."
Part of it is that I can't exactly define "不慣れな思い". He feels "inexperience"
being a father, since he's not a part of his studying daughter's or sick
mother's lives? But why would he feel OK suffering such a depressing feeling
alone (私一人で十分です)? He feels good avoiding the difficulty his daughter/mother
would impose on him? That seems like a dark and selfish mentality for a
neutral passage. I'm lost here.

Thanks in advance.




不慣れな思い (literally "feeling/sense of unfamiliarity") refers to all the
inconvenience associated with the life in a new town. Starting to live in an
unfamiliar town is tough to everyone, and 単身赴任 is especially tough to him
because he is very bad at household tasks. But he also thinks that moving
together with other family members would be worse because his daughter is a
受験生 and his mother is not healthy.

  * 不慣れな思いをするの  
those who will feel the inconvenience

  * 不慣れな思いをするのは私一人です  
It's only me who will feel the inconvenience

  * ～で十分です  
～ is enough.

  * 不慣れな思いをするのは私一人で十分です  
(Although I myself have to move,) there doesn't have to be more than one
person who will suffer inconvenience.




不慣れな思い (literally "feeling/sense of unfamiliarity") refers to all the
inconvenience associated with the life in a new town. Starting to live in an
unfamiliar town is tough to everyone, and 単身赴任 is especially tough to him
because he is very bad at household tasks. But he also thinks that moving
together with other family members would be worse because his daughter is a
受験生 and his mother is not healthy.

  * 不慣れな思いをするの  
those who will feel the inconvenience

  * 不慣れな思いをするのは私一人です  
It's only me who will feel the inconvenience

  * ～で十分です  
～ is enough.

  * 不慣れな思いをするのは私一人で十分です  
(Although I myself have to move,) there doesn't have to be more than one
person who will suffer inconvenience.

