Who has coparented with someone who lived in another town?

Parenting
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How many of you moms have experience living in different towns while coparenting? I am thinking of making a move in about a year to a town about an hour and 15 minutes away from the town my kids dad lives in. We have equal custody. What works and doesn’t work for you?

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15 min doesn’t seem far at all…my bothers kids where in Austin tx and he was in Wyoming and made it work great. Can you meet halfway maybe?

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I live 3.5 hours from my kids dad. We coparent pretty well. No custody order & no child support. We just make it work. I give him the kids on all their breaks, every Christmas, anytime I come into town. We’re both there for the kids event.

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If you move, be prepared to lose some time. But it can work.

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Bonus momma here of a five year old girl!! We live 1 hr and 37 minutes from our baby! Mom and I work health care and have our weekends off opposite. And dad is off every weekend we do every other weekend and every other week during the summer. This is our first time doing it every other week. We did two weeks last summer and our baby had a hard time adjusting.

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Right now my son’s bio mom lives about 45 minutes away.
She brings him out to us for school Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings every week than he stays with us till Friday night one week and the other week
He goes home Monday after school. It’s works great for us.

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I was 2 hours away and we met halfway for visitations.

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BD lives like 45mins away. Kids are with him every other weekend, door is open for him to see kids during week if his work schedule allows it. Same for his mom she can come by whenever. During school breaks he takes them longer, same for summer right now we have it scheduled that he will have the kids for 3 weeks this summer. But we coparent very well, and are still friends

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Unless dad agrees to give up most of his time, be prepared for the possibility of you having to give up some of your time. If it’s equal parenting now, it can’t be when you are that far away if the kids are in school. One of you will likely have to be the primary and since you are the one leaving, it could likely be the dad having primary.