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| relocating for love
Posted: 6/16/2008 8:37:04 PM | | Right now that just wouldn't be an option for me. I love the idea of relocating for love, but the reality is my kids wouldn't want to be leaving their schools and I doubt their Mom would be too keen on me taking them to another city. I have my kids the majority of the time, but we share custody. | |
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| relocating for love
Posted: 6/16/2008 9:08:50 PM | I relocated for love. This weekend on Whyte Ave in a pub, I picked up my chair and moved it closer to my GF. That's relocating.
AE - The gangster formerly known as Captain Beijos. | |
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| relocating for love
Posted: 6/21/2008 7:51:25 PM | Um,
First Op, been there, done that. Couldn't find Austin Texas on a map (I lived in Florida and never had strayed from the east coast), didn't know it existed and fell in love, moved across the country to live there. What an unforgettable trip!
I was so lonely back home in Florida, and didn't feel I fit in. I lived there because of extended family and work. So moving across the country for love was a no brainer(get it?).
When and while it works, it works fabulously! It was 9 months of bliss.
Eventually, things happen, recessions, job issues, crime, pregnancy, responsability. Reality bites. It turns out I was a responsible person. He wasn't and after putting him through college, he found himself someone else. We split up. I was in debt, a single parent, and lost everything. I moved back to where I came from because I knew I could always get a job there. (This was 18 years ago)
When it doesn't work...you can start sucking lemons.
It's awful and for a while, you feel angry, betrayed and feel you've given up so much for this person you believed in with nothing to show for it but problems.
I have moved across a country or two...but never for a man. I moved for better opportunities, better jobs etc... and it has worked fabulously.
Now my baby is an adult and on her own. I'm back to square 1, where I was before I met her father.
Meanwhile, recently, I've been asked if I'd move back to Florida (by a man I went out with as it was his dream)....um, when I'm 80 maybe...lol, to some little town in North East Alberta hours from anywhere, and South .
I have no problems moving, but for the right reasons. To enrich my life, not to give up my life for someone else.
Someday, I'd like to live in different countries, 1 year at a time (or for however long my visa is permitted) and travel and work, write, design, paint...etc...
I'm hoping to meet a man who has the same sense of adventure. But I'd never dare to ask him to give up anything for me, likewise, I wouldn't expect him to ask me either.
If both our paths are heading in the same direction. Then I think it's fabulous...
One should only hope. | |
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