Stuck abroad. Wanting to go home

[DiDov]

Think I'm at the end of my tether.I get down every few weeks and then I just tell myself to suck it up. I'm living abroad with my husband, have been for the last seven years. We have 3 kids , 7, 5, and 3. They are happy and integrated . My husband is fantastic. I have nothing to complain about but I'm unhappy. I just want to go back home and be with my family. I've clamped this down for 5 years because I know my husband's life is here (because of his parents) and I think it's very important for my kids to be with their father but more and more I wonder how much more I can live with repressing my needs for what I think is the best for the kids. I'm think I'm stuck in this cycle of wanting to go home but thinking just stick it out.

What do you dislike about where you are?

What would be better about returning to the UK?

I guess the problem I have with here is that I don't really have friends. People I know, but not people I really want to talk to, people that I connect with. On top of that I don't really like the country I'm living in. I miss the landscape of Scotland; I miss the culture and the systems.
What I dislike about here is the weather and the life here is really at odds with who I am.I feel that I'm very northern european and here is very southern.
What would be better about returning to the Uk is that I would immediately be in an environment I love and understand; also I would be with my family.

Could you split life? Eg take the children to Scotland for the whole summer holiday and every other main school holiday?

DiDov, you wouldn't be in Switzerland would you? I've been here for 2.5 years and I feel very much like you do. In fact I think I could have written your post myself. My husband loves his job, my children love their school etc.
But I don't feel like that.
Something I did find helpful, but didn't help me to change the way I felt, but gave me some different perspectives was counselling ( I did mine over Skype as it was cheaper and I could do it in English).
Feel free to Pm if it might help, even if just for a rant.