These are some very difficult questions. I have a few questions to ask back before I think I can properly try to answer them.
First, can you go month to month on your lease following October/November? That might cost more but gives you lots of flexibility while dealing with this. If you can, and you can at all swing it, I think it would be very much worth it.
If you can't go month to month, and assuming you stay local, do you like the place you are living at now?
Can you just up and move to another part of the country? What do you do for a living? Can you quit your job just like that?
What would you LIKE to do to GAL? I know money is tight, but if it weren't, what would you be doing?
M-34 XW-32 D-7 Found OM's presence 4/09 Separated 12/09 Divorced 8/10 GREAT relationship as coparents since 8/10