My lovely bright teen was really unhappy at school a year ago.
Around the same time my partner and I started talking about buying a house together instead of living an hour away from each other.
She was due to sit GCSEs this July and agreed a fresh start at a new sixty form would be far preferable to staying at the small grammar school she'd outgrown.
So... we found a house last Autumn and went through the arse of selling two houses and moving in. We moved a month ago. My partner is an incredible step dad persona to my daughter and has three kids of his own who are all as bright and quirky as she is.
At the beginning of the year she started hanging out with nice lads from the boys grammar school where we lived and her and her mates went on wholesome all day hikes with them and just generally enjoyed ad-hoc socials with our central house being the hub.
I knew the move would therefore hit her hard but am so sad to see her sobbing day in day out at the loss of her lovely life.
And no idea what to do.
I've encouraged her to apply for a summer job which she is doing and will get her on an intensive driving lesson course next year when she turns 17.
Looking for ideas of how to help her before she slides into a pit of depression and misery. Poor thing she's so furious with us. The rest of us are happy and by contrast her officially disabled and depressed older sister is so happy to be in a household where she has my partner and his kids (half the week with us) to hang out with after 5 years of herself languishing in bed with no contact with the outside world.
I just want everyone to be happy and enjoying their best lives.