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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mom and dad divorced. Mom got married to a man who is active duty and being required to move.  Mom is choosing to move with her new husband.

Did I get all this correct?

Daughter gets to stay “home” with dad.  She’s had enough change in her life.  She wasn’t born into the military lifestyle and probably didn’t have any say in the remarriage plans.  Let her keep some sense of normalcy.[/quote]

Agree with this.   These are hard years for moving kids.  And as a pp pointed out, there will likely be another move in three years or so when dd is in high school.   Most military families do everything possible to avoid a move the last couple of years of high school, even if that means sending the military spouse on their own to the next assignment for a year or two.   That could be very complicated in this blended family scenario.  I would work on a way to have her stay in the DC area with her dad, with lots of visitation with mom.

- another military mom [/quote]

OP here.  We will not be moving from new place, for various reasons that don’t need to be discussed here.  If we were moving again I’d feel differently and that is a good point.  But bottom line, once we move we will be staying put.[/quote]

There is never this kind of certainty in the military, especially in the later years of your career.

Signed,
Military spouse.[/quote]

Unless this will be his last posting and he plans to retire.  Though I agree in principle - in the military you can say what is likely to happen, but it's not a done deal until it's done. [/quote]

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