I am so sorry that you feel trapped. Was your wife unhappy in the UK ? Do you think she felt trapped over here? How long had she lived over in the UK before you went to the US?
No my wife was happy in the UK. She had been there 23 years before we moved. She says that she was excited to go to the USA to start with but when it was getting closer she did not want to go. She said she thought it would make me happy and happier than I was in the uk.
She loved me and wanted to make what we thought would be a better life. She now says that she wished that we had stayed but can not turn back the clock.
This hurts me so much for not realizing this at the time. I wish she had banged this into my head but of course the famililes could not disuade me and I can not remember having a serious conversation on her feelings.
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One of my BIL's is English and M'd a S.African girl. They tried to settle here in the UK twice and in S.Africa once. Funnily enough it was always the S that was in their own country that was the unsettled one. In the end the emmigrated to Australia and they seem to have finally found a place they feel at home.
Yes this obviously, is true of my wife and stupidly I thought she would be happy in her home country and home town.
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Where abouts in the UK did you used to be? I am in the midlands - you couldn't get more central!!!
Born and raised in Surrey but moved to the south west - Dorset 10 years ago and lived there for 8 years. Beautiful place, why we left f*** knows.
