Hey Ready2Change - thank you so much for reading my post - I think my ex will NEVER leave her job, unless she is fired. She is very well paid and she loves it. It is a very specialized job. I think if she gets fired for some reason (like lack of funding) it is going to be very hard for her to find another job like that - this at least is what she has always been telling me and this is why I ended up living my job and I followed her around the country for a while until we settled here. When I told her I was moving she cried a lot - she said it was going to be very hard on the kids - I said half joking - why don't you guys move too? She discarded it very fast, I said that I just have to hope she is going to be fired. She told me that instead, MAYBE, she will start her on business, and make it big and move not because she has to. Well, I said, that would be even better - Besides her work she is still in her relation with her "wonderful" colleague - and I don't sincerely know where that is going, maybe they are going to get married.... who knows. I would take her and the kids with me, no questions about that.