Dealing with Family

Jul 27, 2020

Has anyone dealt with moving overseas when your parents are against you leaving? We have 3 young kids and they are my parents only grandkids. Our family is their life (they even moved next door to us). But we feel it is the right thing for us. Any tips on how to let your family know your intentions to move overseas and how to ease the blow?

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MsU Honestly no one is happy with us. We are leaving young adult children and aging adults. But we are doing this because its just the right thing for us. Sometimes you need to accept that you can't make everyone happy. I think once they see how happy you are and how much this enriches their grandchildren lives they will adjust and accept it. We are pl...See More

Jul 27, 2020

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HelpOthers Promise to Facetime chat or other video chat with them each evening/morning or weekly, whatever your comfort level. You could also look into how easy it might be for them to visit, once the COVID-19 situation is over. Each country has a specific length of time for a visitor/tourist visa.

Jul 27, 2020

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haha There is no great way. We started with, "We are thinking about teaching overseas with DoDEA. It would be a dream chance for a teacher for reasons x,y, z, but it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity, probably never happen, etc."

Family wasn't happy but it helped that one set had a military background and they had to admit that they did...See More

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Icanread We started the conversation like Haha mentioned -- "We're considering moving overseas." My parents had also moved a few houses away from us. My dad told me not to abandon him and told me I needed to tour the entire country before ever considering leaving the US. However, we did it anyway. And it has been one of the best decisions for our family.

Jul 28, 2020

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Cordelia It can be really hard to leave family. And if they are not supportive, it's even harder. It will be a difficult conversation to have and there will be many more difficult conversations and guilt ridden moments. After 5 years overseas, I still have guilt (and weirdly common in this thread, my parents had also built a house next to ours!). However, y...See More

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