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Newly Wed Ex-Pats

  • 08-09-2006 4:49pm
    #1
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭


    Has anybody else who lives abroad found themselves feeling really homesick after the wedding? I'm just married 13 days, and we got married in our house in London. But we've both found that since the last few people went away on the Monday after that we're both really homesick. We both catch ourselves wandering around at times missing Dublin, and I'm not even from there:( .

    I guess we've just had so much to do and look forward to for the last few months, between buying our house and planning our wedding and now we don't have that. And we had all our friends around us for a few days who we haven't really seen in ages and now they're gone. We don't even have anyone around to re-live things with.

    It feels even worse than the first day back at school after Christmas when I was a kid. I guess we'll just have to push ahead with our getting puppies plan and the new series of BSG starts next month, so it's not all doom and gloom:) .


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  • #2
    Ickle Magoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    Hi Iguana,

    We moved to Ireland just after our honeymoon so know something that you are going through...especially the feeling that you didn't really think about the implications of moving because you had so much on your plate in the run up to the big day.

    My DH is an Irishman so it's slightly different for him in that we moved from my home town to his country. We had been living together in Edinburgh for 4yrs so it was still quite a wrench & we didn't move to his home town of Dublin.

    We are 2yrs down the road now & I still get pangs of homesickness even tho we have made new friends & my husband has settled in well at his work. I try to shake it off & just get on with things. Even if we moved back our lives have changed so much (2 kids now) that we have left "that" life behind forever regardless of where we live. :(

    It does get easier & the times you meet up again with the auld gang are always great fun! :)


  • #3
    SingingCherry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 170 ✭✭SingingCherry


    Yes, I know what you mean. From the time I moved here in Jan 05 until my wedding in Jan 06 I was pretty occupied with my wedding and didn't think about not being in NYC anymore with my friends and family. Since we have been married, however, i have been homesick a lot more. I almost went crazy last April through June I was so homesick and had nothing to do with my time but thought constantly about the things I could be doing if I were with my friends and family back in America.

    It does wear off after time. I have started getting used to being here all the time and the weather, while annoying, doens't bother me as much as it used to. I do have a few pangs for home, but not as bad as those first few months after the wedding. Good luck :)


  • #4
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I got married in the US in May '04 (wife is American) and we went back to Ireland but she missed her folks and things so we moved to the US in April '05. I still haven't gotten used to living here. I used to live in London and had no problems so I guess its partly a distance issue. Going back to Ireland for a week in November though, looking forward to it. :)


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