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re: Parent's; how do you deal with child moving to another state?
Posted on 11/3/24 at 9:43 am to muttenstein
Posted on 11/3/24 at 9:43 am to muttenstein
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That’s the thing. I an happy and proud; just the distance is depressing.
Unless you see him every week it’s not going be that different. Holidays and special occasions. Hell, if I were you, I’d pack my bags and moved to Tampa too.
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Posted on 11/3/24 at 9:43 am to muttenstein
It will get easier as the weeks go by. If he is happy with the area and his job it will be fine. If it is terrible he can always come back. My son is over 1,000 miles away in college. It was tough at first but it has been a good experience for him which has made it easier.
Posted on 11/3/24 at 9:44 am to TigerNAtux
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Facetime is a blessing too.
Yep, I talk to my grown daughters and their children daily, it really helps for those far away.
Posted on 11/3/24 at 9:46 am to muttenstein
It sucks. My now ex blew up our family and between the adult children being spread all over and the three youngest being a ways away it is tough.
I raised the kids to be independent and now as I age I really regret that. I have one in South Carolina (married with a child), one in DFW (married with a child and my just turned 18 yo daughter (no pics) nannying for him); one in Tennessee, and then the young ones near Cleveland.
I would love to have all of them close with Sunday dinners at my house.
All I can tell you is do your best to stay in touch and try to use tech to your advantage - video conferencing etc.
I raised the kids to be independent and now as I age I really regret that. I have one in South Carolina (married with a child), one in DFW (married with a child and my just turned 18 yo daughter (no pics) nannying for him); one in Tennessee, and then the young ones near Cleveland.
I would love to have all of them close with Sunday dinners at my house.
All I can tell you is do your best to stay in touch and try to use tech to your advantage - video conferencing etc.
Posted on 11/3/24 at 9:47 am to muttenstein
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I am having a tough time with it.
Honestly I will have a tough time too when that day comes. I've advised them all my hope is for them each to go to school somewhere other than Louisiana.
I understand though buddy. It'll all work out.
Posted on 11/3/24 at 9:48 am to muttenstein
You raise them to leave you! The goal is for kids to be well adjusted and successful. I have bi-coastal kids with grandkids. One child moved backed to within two hours. Another, will remain in state, another most likely will remain several hours away due to work. It sucks but they are doing well and I get to to see many other places. Home base will always be the old homestead with the grandparents- I can’t relocate to one kid and not another. I see so many older people die and come back “home” to be buried. Got to have roots somewhere.
This post was edited on 11/3/24 at 9:50 am
Posted on 11/3/24 at 9:56 am to muttenstein
All 3 of my daughters have. Don’t like it but want them to live their lives.
Posted on 11/3/24 at 10:08 am to muttenstein
My oldest son married a local girl and had our first grandchild and a year later moved to NWArk for her dream job that she now hates. Ugh.
Posted on 11/3/24 at 11:12 am to muttenstein
Being on the other end of this, going to the same place in Florida. Wish them luck and don’t press the issue of leaving the nest, abandonment, etc... Likely it will make them want to go more and not visit very much. Let your kids figure out who they are without you, it’s part of life
Posted on 11/3/24 at 1:24 pm to TBoy
Spoken like a true liberal.
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