AITA - I moved for my husband's job, my kids now hate me

"Mom found someone who loves her and who she loves and who makes her happy. I know this hard for you and it has strained our relationship, but love is a powerful and complex emotion, it is also hard to deny it. I didn't want to go through the stress of having to have a long distance marriage, nor did I see that as viable, and certainly after two years I did not feel like divorce was an option. I know this hard, and I still want to have a relationship with you, be involved in your lives, and you involved in mine, but that distance and the fragmentation of our family continues to make that hard"

Like seriously this isn't like "I met a dude and now I live in Texas, goodbye" This is trying to continue on with a path of life, and yeah the kids should have say and their reaction to the step-dad is missing in OPs piece, but still you would've thought given his career that OP and the kids would've spent some time coming to the realization that mom moving could be a possibility. honestly this whole situation reeks of poor or a lack of communication between all parties.

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