Living away from family

Ok so does anyone else here live far away from family and find yourself feeling lonely or homesick at times?? I moved away from home when I got married 6 years ago (he was in the Navy and stationed 8 hours away). And we’ve basically lived long distance from family ever since. We recently moved again, this time a bit closer now (5 hours) but even that still feels far away. Before having my daughter, I was perfectly fine with the distance. I mean, I’d still miss being around family, but I never really felt lonely, I think because I worked FT and had more of a social life so I kept busy. But now that I’m a SAHM to my 18month daughter and am currently pregnant again, I’ve been feeling soo homesick. We do visit family every few months, usually for holidays or special family events, so it’s not like I never see them.. but it’s just not the same as being around them on a daily or weekly basis. My siblings all still live back home, and they are always at my parents house visiting and doing stuff with the kids, so I can’t help but to feel a little sad that my daughter and I are missing out on those memories.. I’m super close to my parents, I FaceTime them every single day and my daughter loves talking to them, and my siblings and I also have a group chat where we share pics of our kids and talk about random stuff, so I am grateful for that. But still, motherhood gets lonely at times, and I feel that not having close family around just makes it so much more lonelier. Anyone else feel this way?

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yes, i moved to be with my husband who’d in the navy and live across the country from my family. it’s been so hard adjusting to not having them around especially after having my youngest last year. i think it contributed to my terrible post partum depression

I feel this way. Live in Cali with my hubby and 8 month old and all of my family is in Michigan 💔

Definitely feel this. My family is 7 hours away and the drive is so long with 2 kids

Feel the same too! My family is overseas and we see them only once a year! It’s definitely hard and lonely.

definitely. All our family is in MA and I’ve been feeling a lot more homesick now that we have our son.

Same here. I’m about to have my first and I’ve been feeling so homesick and miss my family so much especially being pregnant. My in laws live 20 mins away and every time we spend time with them (usually every other weekend), I miss my family more and feel lonely.

Yes and it’s so much worse when you have kids because you feel like they should be spending time with their family. I am now in Cali, 11 hours from my parents and it breaks my heart that they I’ve only met their 9 month old grandson once.

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What’s keeping you from moving back if your so homesick

@Ariel my husband’s job pretty much. There’s really not many job opportunities for him if we were to move back home. He gets payed pretty good now, so he’d probably be getting a pay cut if we were to move anyways. Also, it’s a really small town, there’s not much to do in that area, schools aren’t that great, and there is a lot of crime compared to where we’re at now. We do love where we live now. It provides a better quality of life for our kids, even if it means having to be away from extended family. Just one of those sacrifices we have to make as parents. Definitely not an easy one though..

Oh no I’m so sorry

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