I just need a good old whine really. Advice/comments/sympathy/ welcome though.
I have been in Sweden for nearly 7 years now. I have never settled.
I have tried to love it, I have tried to like it, I have tried to even tolerate it but at the end of the day I don't like it. I don't want to be here, I want to go home ( emoji of baby throwing toys out of pram)
At the beginning I tried to completely immerse myself in all things Swedish. I have learned the language, learned the customs.
Then I tried to live a half/half existence (English/Swedish)
Now I just don't want to try any more, I'm tired, fed up, disappointed. I just want to be somewhere I can be me. Where I don't have to try every bloody day to pretend that I understand this place. Is is too hard living here. I'm not going to bash the Swedes as they are who they are. I just find it really hard living here.
If it was only me then I would leave tomorrow and never look back, but I have a dh who has a good job, doesn't get wound-up as much as I do, children who enjoy their school and have only ever know this place as home.
I know I will have to stay here until the children finish their education at least, but today I want to go home.
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strugglinginsweden · 11/08/2016 12:08
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