Moved house and feel HORRENDOUS

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Just moved house and have spent the last hour just crying on my own. I don't know what's wrong with me. I like the house but I'm already thinking of when I can sell it.

Totally normal reaction! I've felt like this every time I've moved house, and I've always loved the house I'm moving to! It's a feeling of being overwhelmed, an odd homesickness in a way as it doesn't feel like home yet. Just roll with the punches, you'll honestly feel better in just a few days when you start to actually live there ♥️ congratulations on the move!

Its normal, moving house is recognised as one of the most stressful events you ever face in life. Often that stress is not recognised or expected, but it is very very real. I cried for a week when I moved, and wanted to leave - but have been very happy here for the last 30 years now.

Okay that's reassuring. I just feel empty and stressed and anxious at a time when I think I should just be really happy and I've worked for years to make this happen. I feel really lonely as well and there's so much to do.

I was the same, seven years ago, and I still want to sell and move.

we moved one street away from rented to buying and for the first six months i missed the lovely big kitchen from the old house, this house needed doing up from top to bottom and four years later is starting to look like ours and yes i still miss the big kitchen from the other house even though we have put in a perfect for me new kitchen

When you move into a new house you just want to go home x

Aww love, it's normal, you'll settle and enjoy it in time.x

8 months ago I moved to a new house after 15 years at my previous home.

I cried for weeks.

I just wanted to go 'home'

I'm much more settled now, it just takes time.

I've done this with nearly every move I've had. Houses often look very different and less clean empty compared when you viewed them with furniture. Plus the buying and selling process can be super stressful so you think moving in is the end but of course there's more to do. It doesn't feel like home yet. Can you get a few home comforts, practical necessities and favourite things in place?

It is a very common response. Haven't had it myself but I have seen so many posts from people here who have just moved thinking they have made a dreadful mistake, that it will never feel like home, that there is too much work to do, that it's just not right somehow, it's the wrong area etc. And so many replies from people saying they have felt the exact same thing but still came to love or at least like their new home.

Sounds like a type of homesickness. I get this feeling the first night of a holiday.

My last two house moves I had been staying with family in between so getting in to my new house was a big relief 😅

This is exactly how I feel. It doesn't feel like home here.

I don't even know where my phone charger is for tonight :( poor organisation on my part I know but I thought I'd organised everything well.

I can also empathise. It's not talked about enough! The stress of moving isn't just the actual 'moving' work but it's then the fact that you have moved.

It will get better. In the meantime, have nice food and lots of water and wear cosy clothes and maybe have a sleep/read a good book / take a bath

I have my flat for one more week, it's empty but I feel the urge to go back there tonight even though there's not even a bed there to sleep in.

I felt like that and we'd moved into my dream house. Lay there on the floor the first night thinking wtaf have we done. 25 years later you couldn't drag me out, I love it so much. Really hope you settle and feel the same xx

Everyone is right, buying and selling is such a stressful time and you feel like it should be all over when you move in, but it isn’t, and that makes it feel worse. Plus it never looks the same, there’s either too much to do or you feel like you’re a stranger is someone else’s house.

Get to bed tonight with your laptop and give up for today. Tomorrow, focus on getting one room as right as you can, whichever room you’ll spend most time in.

It’ll come but it really does take some time.

Cut yourself some slack you made it through. You can always buy a spare tomorrow if you have no luck. I'd made a warm nook to snuggle up in and treat yourself to a takeaway if you haven't already. Try and find tea, coffee, sugar snacks a good book and a light source and some comfy pyjamas and clothes for the morning. The rest can wait. You'd be surprised at the random stuff you can get from deliveroo. We were poorly after moving and its pretty rural so I ended up getting a boots delivery including medicine, toiletries, new toothbrush and shower scrubs

I moved from my 2nd floor rented flat to my newly bought house. The house I was desperate to get, and l felt physically sick & wanted to go back to 'my' flat

I couldn't ever imagine settling & loving living here. Within a couple of days, once my packing was all done I felt totally different & I loved it & it felt like home.

Give it a bit of time

You crave the cosy familiarity of home. Your safe space. It’ll take a while but you’ll soon settle xx

I felt like this, it lasted a full year. I cried every day for 6 weeks, and I'm not an emotional person.

Now I feel incredibly lucky and I love the new house.

Change is hard, even when it's wanted!

So cute. You’ll be ok ❤️

It really took me a while to settle in when I moved after spending 3 years in my previous place; it took time but I loved the new place after a few weeks and kept reminding myself why I’d moved and what I liked about the new place

Yea, it’ll be OK! Stressful time.

This was me almost a year ago (different name)
I sunk my divorce money into a house that I loved, until I owned it and set foot in it! Once their stuff was gone I hated it. I wanted to move and I thought wistfully of the rented house, with damp, I had left behind (which my youngest also kept asking to return to)

So much ch was riding on the house and it stood for so many things for me, that I think it was just all too much when I got it.

Fast forward a year and although there are bits of it that aren’t ideal that I didn’t fully notice when viewing, we love the place, I’ve decorated and made it mine, because I think at the time it felt like “theirs” and it all felt a bit weird.