Hello everyone
My children and I have been in Australia nearly 7 years, the first few years were ok but then I started to not really like it terribly much, I have children back in the UK and since being here 3 grandchildren have been born and as the years passed I got more and more depressed, bitter and angry about why I’m here! We came to change our lives, be financially better off and have a good lifestyle, but in my eyes we were worse off, we lived in a lovely location in the UK right by the beach and we just swapped one lifestyle for another but minus family, youngest son is Autistic and having no friends or family for Support was very very tough. My husband has always said he’d never go back, that’s there nothing to go back for so this of course meant there was a lot of tension and trouble for our relationship.
so to cut a very long story short, I left my husband and me and my children are living in a rental whilst we wait to go home in february. I know it’s the right thing to do for me and I’ve spoken to my children at great length and they are all happy to go home, one of my children said to me that one of the reasons she wants to go home is because she feels she doesn’t belong here, that pretty much sums it up, we all miss the love and support of our family and being here, so isolated is killing us all.
so I’m just wondering really are there any of you that came over together with husbands/wife’s then returned home as a single parent??
Its hard, it’s heartbreaking and how I’m still sane is a miracle to be honest. I feel sad that the Australian dream didn’t work out, but I cannot wait to be somewhere where people care? Where if you dropped dead then people would care, if I dropped dead here no one would know. That feeling of being alone in a big big country is not a nice feeling!
so we are on countdown till February and to start another chapter in a book.
thanks all x
