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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
Thanks.
On a new topic, Eldest Grinch, aged seven, is best friends with a boy in our neighborhood. Same school, same soccer team, same carpool -- the works. Friend's mom just dropped the bombshell that they're thinking of moving to Colorado. Neither boy knows this is a possibility yet. Both will likely be devastated.
Anyone have advice on how to contextualize the news that your best friend in the world is moving away? Should I make unrealistic promises, like "you two can keep up by e-mail" when I know that won't happen, or, if it does, the relationship will turn lopsided?
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First of all, I am so sorry for your loss and I hope your friend's wife has a good support system. On the "best friend moving" thing, is it unrealistic that they'd keep up by e-mail? I would be up front about how it's gonna suck not to have his buddy there all the time but I might soften the blow by seeing if you can pin down a time when they might see eachother again (if possible). Also, I don't know if you're on facebook but I am and I have a few friends on there that moved away from our neighborhood when I was about your boy's age. Obviously, we haven't kept in touch starting from that time but have reconnected. I think I would show Viet Babe examples of kids I still keep in touch with - and pics of them and their kids. At least she'd know that a friend moving away isn't going to mean no contact forever and ever. FWIW, my own parents wanted to move when we were little (just a few towns over) and we badgered my parents so relentlessly that they finally caved in and we stayed in the neighborhood.
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