How to deal with leaving family behind?
Sep 30th 2008, 7:43 pm
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Re: How to deal with leaving family behind?
Oct 1st 2008, 4:32 pm
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Re: How to deal with leaving family behind?
hi there.
i totally understand how you feel, leaving families behind. most especially if the family ties are very close. i left my home country 6 years ago, i come with husband and my daughter to america. i left my parents back home. when i arrived in america, i have nobody, no relatives, no friends, nobody except my husband and my daughter. i was a hard, very hard adjustment on my part. but as time goes on, i got used to the way of life here. i got adjusted living far from my parents and realtives that i left back. yes it was very hard to leave my relatives and parents but i can say now that since my family is with me, my husband and daughter, we are now so very very close and very bonded because there is nobody here except us...
there are good points and bad points in leaving families behind.. soon, you will get over it and you can adjust very well with how the way things are here in america. good luck to you
i totally understand how you feel, leaving families behind. most especially if the family ties are very close. i left my home country 6 years ago, i come with husband and my daughter to america. i left my parents back home. when i arrived in america, i have nobody, no relatives, no friends, nobody except my husband and my daughter. i was a hard, very hard adjustment on my part. but as time goes on, i got used to the way of life here. i got adjusted living far from my parents and realtives that i left back. yes it was very hard to leave my relatives and parents but i can say now that since my family is with me, my husband and daughter, we are now so very very close and very bonded because there is nobody here except us...
there are good points and bad points in leaving families behind.. soon, you will get over it and you can adjust very well with how the way things are here in america. good luck to you
Oct 2nd 2008, 9:58 pm
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Re: How to deal with leaving family behind?
We are in the process of emigrating to Seattle in Oct, husband has new job in US. We also have two young boys, 3.5 and 6 months. I was wondering how your family's have reacted and how you deal with taking the kids away from the grandparents. In Laws are quite old and we have no idea if they will come out and visit. She is very close to my eldest so will have a tough time of it and we sometimes are not even sure she realises we are really going!! Am kind of worried that my husband will come back through guilt of his mum. I have to say that our family has had very mixed reactions so wanted other people's family reactions.
We do web cams every weekend now with our kids and their grandparents, so at least they get to interact with them a little bit via the computer.
Oct 3rd 2008, 2:34 pm
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Re: How to deal with leaving family behind?
Oct 3rd 2008, 11:02 pm
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Re: How to deal with leaving family behind?
Totally agree lolly........ not everyone is lucky enough to have parents that deserve the title.
Mallory........in the real world there bad people, there are cruel people and there are people that will lie cheat and abuse and in some cases these people are parents and they commit some of these atrocities on their own families. So saying blood is thicker than water really is not always true.....
Oct 3rd 2008, 11:21 pm
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Re: How to deal with leaving family behind?
Totally agree lolly........ not everyone is lucky enough to have parents that deserve the title.
Mallory........in the real world there bad people, there are cruel people and there are people that will lie cheat and abuse and in some cases these people are parents and they commit some of these atrocities on their own families. So saying blood is thicker than water really is not always true.....
Mallory........in the real world there bad people, there are cruel people and there are people that will lie cheat and abuse and in some cases these people are parents and they commit some of these atrocities on their own families. So saying blood is thicker than water really is not always true.....
Oct 4th 2008, 12:56 am
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Re: How to deal with leaving family behind?
Totally agree lolly........ not everyone is lucky enough to have parents that deserve the title.
Mallory........in the real world there bad people, there are cruel people and there are people that will lie cheat and abuse and in some cases these people are parents and they commit some of these atrocities on their own families. So saying blood is thicker than water really is not always true.....
Mallory........in the real world there bad people, there are cruel people and there are people that will lie cheat and abuse and in some cases these people are parents and they commit some of these atrocities on their own families. So saying blood is thicker than water really is not always true.....
Oct 7th 2008, 9:03 pm
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Re: How to deal with leaving family behind?
If they are beyond visiting age it might pay you to have them setup with the resources and know how on how to do a web cam conference with you while in the USA.
We do web cams every weekend now with our kids and their grandparents, so at least they get to interact with them a little bit via the computer.
We do web cams every weekend now with our kids and their grandparents, so at least they get to interact with them a little bit via the computer.
Oct 7th 2008, 9:09 pm
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Re: How to deal with leaving family behind?
My parents visit every couple of years and I go home w/ kids on the inbetween years. It is hard but it is what it is, I have the only grand kids so.... but everyone gets used to it whether they like or not though, that's a whole other story.
Oct 8th 2008, 2:10 am
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Re: How to deal with leaving family behind?
Totally agree lolly........ not everyone is lucky enough to have parents that deserve the title.
Mallory........in the real world there bad people, there are cruel people and there are people that will lie cheat and abuse and in some cases these people are parents and they commit some of these atrocities on their own families. So saying blood is thicker than water really is not always true.....
Mallory........in the real world there bad people, there are cruel people and there are people that will lie cheat and abuse and in some cases these people are parents and they commit some of these atrocities on their own families. So saying blood is thicker than water really is not always true.....
