Good afternoon from Sunny Ipswich, East Anglia - home!
Jun 14th 2009, 11:51 pm
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Re: Good afternoon from Sunny Ipswich, East Anglia - home!
Hello Mrs M!
I too have been following your "new life" on F'Bk (Bravo to you for having the guts to do what you've done)....and I too (with young daughter) will be embarking on the very same path as yourself (minus the buying a house and living in a lovely area by the sea
). We leave Calgary next Sunday and will initially be going back for a "long vacation" with the intention of deciding one way or another where the heck I want to be!! 
Wishing you all the best love,
Ruby M x
I too have been following your "new life" on F'Bk (Bravo to you for having the guts to do what you've done)....and I too (with young daughter) will be embarking on the very same path as yourself (minus the buying a house and living in a lovely area by the sea
). We leave Calgary next Sunday and will initially be going back for a "long vacation" with the intention of deciding one way or another where the heck I want to be!! Wishing you all the best love,
Ruby M x
Jun 15th 2009, 4:45 am
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Jun 15th 2009, 6:21 am
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Hello Mrs M!
I too have been following your "new life" on F'Bk (Bravo to you for having the guts to do what you've done)....and I too (with young daughter) will be embarking on the very same path as yourself (minus the buying a house and living in a lovely area by the sea ). We leave Calgary next Sunday and will initially be going back for a "long vacation" with the intention of deciding one way or another where the heck I want to be!!
Wishing you all the best love,
Ruby M x
I too have been following your "new life" on F'Bk (Bravo to you for having the guts to do what you've done)....and I too (with young daughter) will be embarking on the very same path as yourself (minus the buying a house and living in a lovely area by the sea
). We leave Calgary next Sunday and will initially be going back for a "long vacation" with the intention of deciding one way or another where the heck I want to be!! Wishing you all the best love,
Ruby M x
really must have missed all this last i heard you were both staying 
I hope you have a safe trip back and find what you are looking for Ruby
Jun 15th 2009, 1:42 pm
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So sorry to hear that your marriage hasn't worked out, but pleased that you are happy back in Blighty.
Best of luck in your new life on this side of the pond.
Best of luck in your new life on this side of the pond.
Jun 15th 2009, 2:03 pm
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Mrs M and Ruby,
Personally I think the decision to return is braver than the decision to emigrate. I hope it all works out for both of you.
Charlie
Personally I think the decision to return is braver than the decision to emigrate. I hope it all works out for both of you.
Charlie
Jun 15th 2009, 2:15 pm
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Especially when you leave half a family behind - very brave ladies I think!
Jun 15th 2009, 3:26 pm
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Was a quick decision hun...but as you know, excruciatingly long pondering over the "Canada-v-UK" thing! I feel like I did all I could to last it out and be there for the special times for my son who has now turned 18 and had his graduation on June 5th....and now it's wide open for me to put my toe in the water and see if home really is where my heart is. My OH has resigned himself to letting me go and do this trip, knowing full well that if I love it back there, I may not come back.....so it's not exactly a happy time, very sad to be honest. I have my mental health and my daughter's wishes to consider - time to be a bit selfish and put "Me" first for a change 
I'll keep in touch Gay, don't you worry
I'll keep in touch Gay, don't you worry
Jun 15th 2009, 3:32 pm
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So sorry to hear that your marriage hasn't worked out, but pleased that you are happy back in Blighty.
Well our relationship hasn't exactly been terminated...I'm trying to categorise it by saying I'm taking a mental break, or living separately for a while. The door is still open for me to return if I choose
Best of luck in your new life on this side of the pond.
Well our relationship hasn't exactly been terminated...I'm trying to categorise it by saying I'm taking a mental break, or living separately for a while. The door is still open for me to return if I choose
Best of luck in your new life on this side of the pond.
Mrs M...sorry for gatecrashing your thread with my news
I've got my own thread going in the MBTTUK, but wanted to share my similar experience.
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Jun 15th 2009, 4:19 pm
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However, I obviously wish you all the best too!
Jun 15th 2009, 4:36 pm
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Jun 15th 2009, 7:07 pm
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Very best wishes to you, feeling happy wherever you are is priceless, glad you are feeling settled
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Jun 16th 2009, 9:54 pm
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Cheers guys for the best wishes, that's really nice of you all.....
I suppose I would just leave one word of warning to any of you who are considering immigration when you know that the relationship you are in isn't working where you are, and that is geography doesn't actually change everything. While it may certainly influence a lot of new things, personality traits that have presented issues for either of you will still be there, and when it's just the two of you, they are certainly magnified!!!!!!
But for now, I'm here and making the best of things, who knows where I'll end up, but at least I'm happy in myself and able to have a support network that I could never have made in Canada. Although I have to admit, some days, just some, I find myself missing the odd thing.......
All thee best
Mistress Miggins xxx
I suppose I would just leave one word of warning to any of you who are considering immigration when you know that the relationship you are in isn't working where you are, and that is geography doesn't actually change everything. While it may certainly influence a lot of new things, personality traits that have presented issues for either of you will still be there, and when it's just the two of you, they are certainly magnified!!!!!!
But for now, I'm here and making the best of things, who knows where I'll end up, but at least I'm happy in myself and able to have a support network that I could never have made in Canada. Although I have to admit, some days, just some, I find myself missing the odd thing.......
All thee best
Mistress Miggins xxx
Jun 16th 2009, 10:17 pm
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Hello my lovelies,
Hope you are all keeping well, to be honest my ears have been burning but I haven't looked to see what's been posted with supposition regarding my return to the UK, but I'll just let you know what's been happening.
After 10 years with my husband I decided, sadly but very rationally to return to the UK on the 2nd of April, he's still in Canada. As you all know, he worked away all through the near on two years we spent in Canada and in the end I realised that I had given up an awful lot and took a huge hit in my quality of life, for not very much in return. The split has been really amicable we still love each other to bits, but we are now going to just move forwards and see what comes next.
It's lovely to be home, I'm working as a student manager (the old head of year) in a high school, I bought and moved in to my own house last Friday which is a nice 3 bed semi in a good area and I have been able to have a social life with people who know me, understand me and have the same outlook on life. The kids have settled back in their old school, they are doing great, so over all it's been really simple to return.
I loved Canada, but never settled for all different types of reasons. I woudn't undo Canada or my decision to go, but in the same way I am absoloutely convinced that it's been the right thing to return...... We all have different values and motivators, I now know mine.
I have no idea what the future will hold for any of us, but I do know that friends and family are what motivate me the most in life, however lovely the big houses, the four wheel drives and the wide open spaces are in Canada there is no feeling like knowing there are people who really care about you just down the road, that my nieces and nephews know me and that my parents won't be in need without me to help.
Whatever happens, I think all you can do is view Canada as a life experience that changes you forever, it's certainly made me more self sufficient, way more discerning and careful of people (you know who they are!) and most importantly much more accepting of myself and feeling comfortable in my own skin. Admittedly what also helps is I live in a nice area of England, so it makes it easier to be here from that point of view.
Take care peeps, thanks for all the support and giggles as I sat there night after night on my own in the prairies surfing BE! I'm now heading off to the sea side to meet mum and dad and the kids, to have fish and chips and call in on friends on the way home. Now that to me is, priceless.
All the very best
Mistress Miggins.
Hope you are all keeping well, to be honest my ears have been burning but I haven't looked to see what's been posted with supposition regarding my return to the UK, but I'll just let you know what's been happening.
After 10 years with my husband I decided, sadly but very rationally to return to the UK on the 2nd of April, he's still in Canada. As you all know, he worked away all through the near on two years we spent in Canada and in the end I realised that I had given up an awful lot and took a huge hit in my quality of life, for not very much in return. The split has been really amicable we still love each other to bits, but we are now going to just move forwards and see what comes next.
It's lovely to be home, I'm working as a student manager (the old head of year) in a high school, I bought and moved in to my own house last Friday which is a nice 3 bed semi in a good area and I have been able to have a social life with people who know me, understand me and have the same outlook on life. The kids have settled back in their old school, they are doing great, so over all it's been really simple to return.
I loved Canada, but never settled for all different types of reasons. I woudn't undo Canada or my decision to go, but in the same way I am absoloutely convinced that it's been the right thing to return...... We all have different values and motivators, I now know mine.
I have no idea what the future will hold for any of us, but I do know that friends and family are what motivate me the most in life, however lovely the big houses, the four wheel drives and the wide open spaces are in Canada there is no feeling like knowing there are people who really care about you just down the road, that my nieces and nephews know me and that my parents won't be in need without me to help.
Whatever happens, I think all you can do is view Canada as a life experience that changes you forever, it's certainly made me more self sufficient, way more discerning and careful of people (you know who they are!) and most importantly much more accepting of myself and feeling comfortable in my own skin. Admittedly what also helps is I live in a nice area of England, so it makes it easier to be here from that point of view.
Take care peeps, thanks for all the support and giggles as I sat there night after night on my own in the prairies surfing BE! I'm now heading off to the sea side to meet mum and dad and the kids, to have fish and chips and call in on friends on the way home. Now that to me is, priceless.
All the very best
Mistress Miggins.
Jun 20th 2009, 2:22 pm
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Actually yes, and the day I moved in I put that fridge magnet on me fridge! When I next catch you on MSN ill give you my number and we can have a proper natter. Miss you bird, I really do xxxx