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Moving - should husband come up or stay?

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SpookyBookey · 14/07/2017 10:08

Morning everyone,

We are in the process of moving from North Kent to Midlands area so quite a drive! We are likely to complete in the next 2-3 weeks, and we will know for sure next week once the last search has come back.

Originally the plan was that my husband would stay at his nan's during the week and return home every weekend until he found a new job. We factored in a switch to minimum wage when we budgeted so isn't so much a concern about finding a similarly paid job (although obviously it would be nice).

He now isn't sure if he wants to do that as it would mean not seeing our 2 year old son for most of the week and I am 28 weeks pregnant so we will start to get close to the birth. But he also thinks it would be a waste to not get his paternity pay from his current employer. We have a year of wages saved so quite a substantial safety net and once baby is here I can look again for some work if other half hasn't found anything (surprisingly no one wants to employ a heavily pregnant lady Wink

If it was you, what would you do?

Take a risk and move up without work or commute?

OP posts:
jkpw · 14/07/2017 19:16

If it was me, I would try the commute first. He can always leave if it's too much of a strain on your family. The extra income and paternity leave will be nice when #2 comes along, and maybe at that point he can seriously start looking more locally.

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