Has anyone lived away from family and friends?

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How did you survive away from family and friends? If you have children and you've had to live with yourself and your children how did you manage

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I just started getting into my community. Making friends with other moms in town, small business owners, and going out of my way to get to know neighbors

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We've never known anything different so nothing to compare it to. It definitely sucks not having family around to help like so many of our friends do but we manage. We have a sitter for date nights and we hired a sibling doula for when I give birth in December.

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Yeah, I’ve lived away from family since before we had kids. Never had help. It’s just our normal. We both work so our kids go to daycare and we sometimes use PTO to have date days while they’re at daycare. I also gave up this year and hired a monthly cleaner.

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Yes it's not the easiest

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I’m American, my husband is British, and we live in the Netherlands. So we don’t have any family even remotely close to us. We have a 20mo and I’m due any day now with our second.
I met other families through pregnancy/birth prep class and then through baby classes (music, dance, readalongs, etc). I’m a SAHM but our daughter is in daycare once a week so I can have at least one productive day. We’ve only gone away once since she was born and we flew my mom over to stay with our daughter.
It’s hard not having anyone around but honestly the quality of life where we are now is so much better than what we had in the US that we think it’s worth it.

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Following because all my family moved away and I don't really have any friends.

Has anyone lived away from family and friends?

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