EllieLouise

Just wanted to share my story up to where I currently am.... Just over 6 years ago I met my husband whilst travelling. Although I had only known him a month I decided to go back to Australia (where he was from) for 6 or so months and see how I go (I guess I was very much in the travelling mindset at the time!) Anyway to cut a long story short, I ended up moving to a country town in rural SA (where he was from) and as I loved this man decided to give it a go! The first year was incredibly challenging. I had told my worried family at the time about the situation but I wasn't completely honest about the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere (by English terms!) and as I didn't want them to worry, whenever I spoke to them I told them that life was wonderful. Anyway, I stuck through this challenging time and culture shock (I am from near London) and we ended up getting engaged and married. To be honest I think we had some challenges right from the start of our relationship. Although I didn't admit it I was incredibly homesick and I missed my friends and family. I felt like there was nothing to do where I was now living (other than country netball and football as the nearest city was over 2 hours away) and I just felt like I didn't fit in. My husband told me that he didn't ever want to relocate to the UK because he couldn't handle the traffic, bad weather and cost of living compared to rural SA. I brushed everything under the carpet and told myself that I had a much better lifestyle than the UK because I lived in a big 4 bedroom detached house with lots of land and for that price I would be lucky to afford a bedsit back where I was from in the UK. Anyway, I ended up falling pregnant and unfortunately miscarried at 13 weeks. There were complications due to them finding a growth in my womb which meant I had to undergo various procedures and blood tests over the following year. During this period and also having both my grandparents and uncle passing away I started to crave England and my family even more. I have always been very independent but I needed some more emotional support which my husband was unable to provide because he was very much caught up in his work and was not around much. The marriage has now fallen apart because my husband has still refused to come to England (even for a year). So, now I have moved out of my home and I'm feeling very much lost with the whole situation. I'm struggling with the whole small town gossip and I'm packing up ready to go back to the UK in Dec. It will be great to be back near my family and friends but at the same time I'm so nervous about going back because I know it will be different at the same time. I feel sad that I have failed at my marriage after only 2 years and it's difficult when all my friends (here and in the uk are married with children now) and I'm back at stage 1. However, I'm determined to keep my head up and I hope that by going home I can feel I belong again and that new opportunities will be there for me.

I'm looking at returning back to the UK at the end of the year. I don't have a lot of stuff so I'm looking at shipping 6-8 boxes back. I live in rural SA so it's going to be expensive arranging to send this door to door. I was thinking of sending my boxes via Pack and send by dropping them off at the location myself. Has anyone used them and how did they find them?