I recently lost my job and my husband and I are worried about the next few months and whether we will be able to pay the mortgage come September.
My son is 16 and has recently gone to live with his dad as he feels life will be better with him, no discipline and get what he wants kinds of methodology whilst he is in the middle of his exams. My daughter is 18 and due to start University in September.
It has made my husband and I think about our future and what we had planned to do in the next couple of years.
Things have been very traumatic for the last couple of years with my mental and physical health having taken an over dose due to work related stress and which meant I couldn't cope with everyday stuff at home. So being made redundant was the best thing that could of happened to me at this stage.
There have been problems with my ex and the kids and with one thing and another it has taken it's toll on me and now more recently my husband.
We love the outdoors and in the future want to own about an acre or so of land. We hadn't planned to move or do any of our plans for two or three years but with my redundancy and everything that has happened lately maybe moving to the West country now is as good a time as any depending on what we can find and how easy we can sell the house.
The problem I'm really putting this thread on for is how my daughter has taken the whole moving away for miles thing. She feels that if she wants to come back home after university that there won't be a home round here for her. I've explained that if we can't afford to keep the house moving to an area where we can live more affordably will be the only answer. Everything is a scenario stage a the moment so we don't know what is going to happen.
Will we be doing the wrong thing if we decide to detach ourselves from everything that has gone on and move sooner rather than later especially if we are forced to knowing it may really upset my 18 daughter? She hasn't really thought about the reasons why we are considering doing what we are thinking of doing but instead just goes into a paddy. I understand completely this is her home but she will have a room where ever we move.