So...my partner works away in the week leaving me with my 6 year old and 3 year old and I'm struggling to cope. We're trying to find a place to rent near where he works (we're looking at either Swanage or Blandford Forum atm) and near a good school but we aren't having a lot of luck. We had a house we really liked in our sights this week but the landlord decided to rent to someone else. I really love where we live now and so conjuring up the mental and emotional energy to keep imagining and reimagining this move provokes a horrible combination of grief at moving and hope that life will get easier once we are all back together. My final straw this evening is my eldest being sick so tomorrow instead of getting a bit of time to get the house sorted and (god forbid) go to the gym whilst my youngest is at preschool I'll be spending another day parenting 24hours. I feel so unhealthy too, my children tend to bicker a lot in the afternoon after school through tiredness so I don't have proper time to cook so we're eating way to much bland and nutritionally questionable "easy stuff". It also might sound ridiculous but the chaos abd upheaval at home being mirrored by our national upheaval seems to really compound things. And my DDs school is also in special measures so that's a constant source of worry too. I guess I was wondering if anyone else has a partner who works away? How do you cope? I probably also just needed to gush some of this out. I'm so sad these days I almost don't recognise myself!