I had to cut players even before we started due to missing character creation deadlines. I had like 9 interested people and was planning on doing just two groups with monthly sign ups. But through conversations I narrowed it down to 6 players. We started the campaign back in October. One player has only played 2 out of the 5 sessions so far and I let everyone know at the end of session when the next session is for the following month and it always seems that the one player who has only played actually had something personal or professional going on. They always seem generally bummed out that they have to miss the session and always let me know at least a couple weeks in advance that they’ll be missing. The two sessions that they’ve been able to play in, they were highly interested and engaged with the game and it didn’t take a lot to get them up to speed or fill in the missing blanks of what happened. My wife is willing to compromise to doing two sessions a month until June to maybe help get everyone back on track and interested instead of having a 3-5 week break in between sessions. She’s already mentioned multiple times of stop playing when after the kids arrive but said I should still keep the game going because she knows dnd is my favorite hobby and that I could switch to an online game vs in person. Like I really want to give the schedule player a chance before having to kick them. They already said they’re free almost every weekend in April. I’m not really sure what to do though. Like I’m half tempted to just start fresh with a new campaign and characters No one in the party has does Lost Mines Of Phandelver besides myself as a player and we never finished playing. From what I’ve played of it and have read reviews on, it seems like a great adventure that really sells what DnD is. Currently we’re running an island hopping adventure with water travel and exploration. The region is on the verge of war between two empires that are fighting over a rare material that’s from another plane. Last session the party were given the ultimatum of either joining the rebellion or fight a high level NPC.

@Jay George thanks for the feedback. I had a conversation with each of the players individually and they all still want to play in the group and like me as their DM (which is a relief). We all agreed that we need to start fresh with a new campaign and considering how busy we each are, I think I’ll be running an official module and thinking of trying to run Curse Of Strahd again. We’re aiming for shorter sessions but 2x a month. Gave the players the dates that I can DM and everyone agreed the dates work for them. Am I setting myself up for failure again by trying to run Strahd again?