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To leave?

Post author:becca15
Post category:Personal Experience
Post comments:5 Comments
Post last modified:April 11, 2019

I cannot describe the sense of relief I feel since finding this site, to know I’m not the only one in this situation. Long story short, I left my ex at…

Desperate Mom Without Hope

Post author:jessenbaker
Post category:Personal Experience
Post comments:7 Comments
Post last modified:December 2, 2020

I haven't been able to hold my two beautiful children for 4 months, ever since I left New Hampshire for Canada. This all started when I left my husband and…

Triage for the New Long Distance Parent

Post author:Carrie
Post category:How-Tos
Post comments:8 Comments
Post last modified:August 14, 2020

For the first time ever, you are a parent without your child. For the first time, you feel a million miles way from them, even if you are really only…

My Two Beautiful Daughters are in Another Country

Post author:AussieDad
Post category:Personal Experience
Post comments:4 Comments
Post last modified:December 2, 2020

I am in Australia and my wife (soon to be ex) and 2 beautiful daughters are in Jakarta, Indonesia. My girls are only 2.5 years and 3 months old. I…

How to Create a Legally Binding Long Distance Parenting Plan

Post author:Carrie
Post category:How-Tos Legalities
Post comments:9 Comments
Post last modified:January 29, 2021

A long distance parenting plan is an arrangement for how you will co-parent a child when one parent is not within close physical proximity. It is one part of a court order.

Collaborating With Teenagers Long Distance

Post author:Carrie
Post category:How-Tos
Post comments:0 Comments
Post last modified:August 14, 2020

Maybe this is the hot ticket with older kids. The way to show support from a distance. To pitch in and help them with stuff that they want or need to do but could use some help doing it better or bigger or cooler. There are tons of those opportunities in upper middle school projects and definitely in high school and technology gives us a way to collaborate in a way we've never had before. Or maybe it's just one more tool to add to the toolkit of a long distance parent.