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Parents don’t want me to go to Australia

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coco123456789 · 24/01/2020 19:43

My DH has been headhunted for an amazing job. But my family are very unsupportive. They think if we go we might not come back and that we should just get on with life here, settle for a ‘normal’ life as that’s good enough for everyone else. My husband is really ambitious and motivated by his job (hence him being sought out like this) but my parents view is that you just work to
support your family, shouldn’t let work be too important etc. I guess they have this luxury as they are baby boomers who could afford a great house without ever having to get too crazy at work. Am I being held back by them, or am I being selfish to leave them? I just don’t know. I have posted before about this as I am also worried I am being selfish in not letting my husband take his dream opportunity. His own parents are very supportive but they are far more contained, happy with each other and have loads of friends etc so they don’t need us so much.

OP posts:
FraglesRock · 08/02/2020 19:22

If they keep your relationship problems alive then they keep you in their grasp.
I'm sure you won't consider them abusive but you do sound like you're in the FOG.

coco123456789 · 08/02/2020 19:29

What is FOG?

OP posts:
FraglesRock · 08/02/2020 20:11

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_blackmail

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