Do you leave your baby because of opportunity abroad?

Philippines
March 25, 2010 7:31pm CST
I have a baby when I left home (philippines). I need to choose my job not because i don't love my baby, but because i need to do it for my baby. Sometimes in our life we need to choose and risk. We need sometimes to choose what is better the emotion of being a mother or the responsiblity of a mother.
8 responses
@Revan2009 (469)
26 Mar 10
Now that would be a tough choice to make... have you moved country or just city?
26 Mar 10
*facepalm* I apologise I see you mean country.
• Philippines
26 Mar 10
Yes! Tough choice and strong decision in mind.
• United States
28 Mar 10
lol facepalm
• Indonesia
7 Apr 10
baby - my baby daughter Callista
Yes, I leave my baby Monday to Friday because I have to work LOL. I am still here, and I'll be back during lunch and at 5 PM. It breaks my heart already so I cannot imagine leaving my baby abroad. She's my life and without her, I am nothing.
• Philippines
18 Aug 10
You are a lucky mom... Good for you..
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
26 Mar 10
Hello missyjanette. It is sad that you have to make that choice. I wouldn't attempt to understand the difficulty you're having as I'm sure that it is very hard. I just wish that your job would have some provisions in it that will make you a permanent resident to wherever country your working. And that sooner or later, you'd be able to get your baby so you'd be reunited.
• Philippines
26 Mar 10
It is very hard, yes. Specially I am not only making money for my career but for the future of the young's life that is connected to my life also... Money is a part to make life but the biggest part of life is the heart of a mother that has been broken because of long distant love..
@asja1388 (131)
28 Mar 10
Hi- I completely understand what you have been going and still are going through. I was in the same situation which is not one you would wish to be in. I never imagined I would be able to leave my baby to my parents while being in another country - but I mainly did for my daughter's future. Luckily this time is over and we are together as a family... and I hope and pray we won't have to do it again. I am pretty sure our children will understand that once they grown up and they will be proud of us!
• Philippines
18 Aug 10
Time passes so quickly.. Thanks to internet today, i can see him everyday. Good we are 5hrs delayed from Philippines...I can see him when he go out and arrive from school.. Soon I'll be home also.
@ada8may21 (2405)
• Philippines
26 Mar 10
Hello missjanette good day.. I feel you and I understand your situation. I am also a single mother and I also need to leave my son in the hand of my parents. But now I no longer do that, that was only for a short period. Just think that it will not be forever and someday once you saved for your future you will also come back and do all the responsibility with the emotion of being mother.
• Philippines
26 Mar 10
That makes me cheer up! Thanks.. my contract is 3 years...and now I am halfway to it.. Time is very short. And our reltionship with my 3 year old boy is good. He knows me and he is calling me Mama.. Good we have internet for a good communication..
@770876 (151)
• Malaysia
28 Mar 10
For me, I gave up my nice job which is always go abroad for business, I just want to company with my daughter and her childhood. I know there are some condition to decide the thing. life is not easy.
• Philippines
28 Mar 10
I used to have plans to leave the country before but thanks to the online businesses that my entire family is doing right now, I do not have to leave them behind anymore.
@Wahma60 (108)
• Philippines
28 Mar 10
I am lucky that my husband provided me the best so that did not happen. I was able to raise our 5 kids well. Children now have financially difficulty and I pray to God always to bless them.