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I moved away from my mother when I graduated college last year. The thing that helped me is that I was moving to a place that I already had a support system set up there since I lived there previously and I was moving totally for economic necessity and employment opportunity. Is it going to suck not spending every holiday with them? Yes. But at the end the day, you have the responsibility to keep you and any immediate family in a position to survive and sometimes you cannot do that living two streets away from your parents or siblings. Such is life.
I plan to move also right now im in Chicago il it's horrible here although my family is here my heart keep pushing to leave i want better i want different
I plan to move also right now im in Chicago il it's horrible here although my family is here my heart keep pushing to leave i want better i want different
I moved away from my home state right after I graduated college. Sometimes I wish I could be closer, but it's kind of nice having my own life. I talk to them a few times a week on the phone.
I plan to move also right now im in Chicago il it's horrible here although my family is here my heart keep pushing to leave i want better i want different
OK. Well, then I would suggest getting your family set up with Skype. Then you can call or Skype them any time you want. It's not quite as good as visiting in person, but almost and a lot better than 100 years ago when all people could do was write letters.
Family is all you got, man. As you get older youll realize this. I moved away from family and enjoyed it (haha) for about 2 months. Then after the excitement of the new place wore off, I became quite lonely, even in the presence of my wife and son. Now, granted, I wasnt too far (about 450 miles) from family, but it was enough. I moved back to IL for other reasons, but family was probably my biggest one. Many people can relocate w/o a 2nd thought in their mind and never miss their families they left behind, but others, like me, who are attached to family, found out it was a HUGE MISTAKE. Best of luck, Josh.
if you have ties that bind you emotionally, maybe it's best to forego a little more money in return for the security that your family brings you. Until i moved away from America I was far more attached to my job than my family. Then i married a woman overseas for whom her family was her life. I've learned a lot from her. I am closer now to my grown children than i was when they were young and we lived in the US and I am closer to her family than I ever was to my mother and father's families. She has two grandchildren, 2 and 6, and we spent the most lovely day, today, walking and playing in the woods Northwest of Copenhagen. I am beginning to experience how people like you feel.
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