Doesn't sound crazy at all...probably what happens to most ex-patriots...just doesn't happen to me....I always wanted to live overseas and am not disappointed....and don't miss the States per say, or the life stye....there are some bitter sweet memories associated with 'home' so I don't really want to return any time soon; I do miss sometimes the overwhelmingly beautiful and magestic landscape of the Pacific Northwest.....but there is so much to see here and in the rest of the world, am not ready to return to places I have already been.
Wondering how long you've been there and if part of living outside the States is missing things you can't get there that you are used to getting in the States??
There are some things I can't get here...I miss them a little sometimes, but have to honestly say I feel no homesickness whatever.
I really think it is okay for me to feel about it the way I do and others to fill about it they way they do, and I have no problem with people living together w/o marriage or having children...but for me, i have lived with someone and have decided i will not do it again w/o marriage...that is what is right for me....
It isn't about a piece of paper making the committment....it is what it means when you make that kind of committment. The people I am referring to all have children, and certainly because of that,a legal marriage and all that entails is necessary--insurance, schools, passports, etc. I've tried the 'i don't need that piece of paper' thing twice....I don't believe it is an attitude that generally fosters a committment to buidling a life with someone and making it work through all the obstacles and difficulties....in the end, it is my opinion.....and it is very firm...
We are always talking about how 50 percent of marriages fail....well 50 percent don't fail...... I know more married people than I do divorced people, and most of them have been married for 15 to 20 to 30 years....I actually know few divorced people...these people are not held together by a religious attitude or social attitudes, they are together because of their committment to each other and to their family...I am actually surroundind by examples of people who are making it work...
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