Guest inlimbo Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Thought this could be an intresting debate, no matter how long you have been in Oz......If you loved Oz but your other half decided they were returning to the UK and nothing you could say would change their minds.....what would you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Working to fish Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Thought this could be an intresting debate, no matter how long you have been in Oz......If you loved Oz but your other half decided they were returning to the UK and nothing you could say would change their minds.....what would you do? Theres a firm in oz called hire a hubby ?. (not for me by the way) eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keily Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Thought this could be an intresting debate, no matter how long you have been in Oz......If you loved Oz but your other half decided they were returning to the UK and nothing you could say would change their minds.....what would you do? get a divorce :biglaugh:....no seriously we have spoke about this ...and if either one of us decided to go back the other would go as well .... :unsure: mrs keily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sykestykes Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 If he really really hated it, I'd go back...I love Australia, but I love him more :hug: Sue x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 I agree with Keily and syketykes, no matter how much i love a country my life wouldnt be complete without my other half so i would go where makes us happy be it UK, Oz or somewhere else , Cal x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JoanneHattersley Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Agree with all the above ladies! My marriage comes before where I live! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest proud2beaussie Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 You could just as easily ask the same question of aussies who go to the UK. My GF is in the UK but I love Australia yet I'm moving there so the result is the same.If you really love someone does it matter where you are as long as you are together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cazz Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Totally agree with the other ladies. Life wouldn't be the same without hubby anyway! x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 You're all such a romantic lot! After 8 months here my OH has started making noises about 'not sure if we did the right thing' and my attitude is 'there ain't no going back matey'. It was him that wanted to come I argued against it for a long time (and now he realises all the arguements I put forward against it are true!) It was a major upheaval for our son and I would not put him throught that again (I guess if we went back now it would be okay but as we are sponsored that would be financially impossible) Of course if he was deeply unhappy I'd be with the rest of you on the plane but surely the arguement works both ways shouldn't he stay here to be with us?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Working to fish Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 I agree with Keily and syketykes, no matter how much i love a country my life wouldnt be complete without my other half so i would go where makes us happy be it UK, Oz or somewhere else ,Cal x Nice one Gary so if you ever want to move near the beech for surfing ,just tell her in doors and you will be sorted . :wink:eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petals Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 I cannot answer what I would do just hope it never arises. I know my Mum said she would not have moved around the world like she did with Dad if she was born today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Working to fish Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 I would ask my other haft to leave me ,enough meals for one, in the freezer until she could fly back out to re stock the freezer. eddie:err: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizzy27 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 I've told my hubby, I ain't going bck to England. If he wants to go then that's his choice LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 2pigs3piglets Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 we are leaving the uk for a reason... i hate the memories it holds for me... so if we got there and he didn't like it i'm afraid he would be getting the plain back alone.... not being selfish but it is his way.. if i didn't like it know he would follow me somewhere else... we have talked and said we would never set foot back in the uk only for funerals lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Agree with the sentiments, my relationship/marriage/family is the most important thing in the world to me and I would go back, or if I hated it and OH loved it then I would probably take a leaf out of Quolls book and find a compromise that meant our relationship was still strong and sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest madplumber1 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Thought this could be an intresting debate, no matter how long you have been in Oz......If you loved Oz but your other half decided they were returning to the UK and nothing you could say would change their minds.....what would you do? OMG Sweetums....got to be the most pertinent thread you've put on here.....I've heard of loads of OH's that have buggered of back to the UK 'cos there not happy with Aus...welll done lad for this top thread...I think I love you:arghh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 LOL if he said he would go, I'd have packed the backpack and be off down to Flight Centre before he could change his mind!!! As the boot is on the other foot at the mo then, as Ali said, compromise is the key - bottom line though is being there without him would be far worse than being here with him. People are more important than places really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest30038 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 I'd tell her no and wait for the reaction. If she said that she was going anyway.........that she was prepared to put Blighty before me, then I'd let her go............she wouldn't be worth bothering with if she put herself first................I wouldn't even bother waving her goodbye. No doubt within a week I'd be back in Blighty, down on my knees, begging her forgiveness :biglaugh: kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janine the party queen Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I agree it is the person not the place.I am happy where ever I live as long as I am with my husband.We have already lived in various countries and if he came home and said Australia was not for him then it would be on the plane to the next country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kangaroo.bruce Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Thought this could be an intresting debate, no matter how long you have been in Oz......If you loved Oz but your other half decided they were returning to the UK and nothing you could say would change their minds.....what would you do? well i think you have to be fair, i'd help her to the car with the cases and might even go to the airport to wave her off too ........ :tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keily Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 well i think you have to be fair, i'd help her to the car with the cases and might even go to the airport to wave her off too ........ :tongue: are you sure that wouldnt be the other way round :biglaugh: mrs keily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourcorners Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 We have already been through this. My OH got the opportunity to do a Phd in Canada so we left Australia and I tried my hardest in Vancouver. But I found it so hard, I was the breadwinner, working FIFO and found it incredibly difficult to make any friends or have any semblance of a normal life. My OH could tell my deep unhappiness wasn't going to go away any time soon. It had always been his dream to live in Canada but the circumstances just weren't right. And in Canada they take roughly 7 years to complete a Phd so looking back I'm glad we made the decisions that we did make. He told me at the time he would do anything to make me happy, that included moving back to the UK at the end of 2008 just as the recession hit. But we landed on our feet and it all worked out in the end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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