Hello, I have just started a new job in the UK and I am in quite a bad and also peculiar situation. I have an adopted son, who is 10 and he is my partner´s son, he died years ago. To me, he is my own son. I am Portuguese, also my partner was, but before meeting him I lived 10 years in UK and I have a British passport.
I lived in Spain for a few years after moving out of the UK and I was suddenly made redundant on 1rst of July, unexpectedly. Ever since that happened my life has been a living hell as a single parent. I started panicking because there were no jobs in Spain and I started looking in the UK and found one. This job is way below my 13 years of experience (it is the role I was working 10 years ago) which also makes depressed after a decade in the business.
I came to the UK with my son and we have been here 3 weeks and things are getting worse. He doesn´t speak English, only Spanish and Portuguese and he is already 10 and he started initially by asking me when he would see his friends again. Now he is refusing to eat until I take him back to Madrid. I had to take him to the hospital last night because he refused to drink and was dehydrated. Honestly my instinct is to get on a plane and go back because I can´t see him like this. I cannot sleep, I am constantly worried I am driving myself insane. However, I would be jobless in Madrid and would be hard to secure a job. I am responsible for buy son´s mental but also financial well being and we don´t have anybody. My parents died 16 years ago and my partner was forested.
The people at the company I now work for know me because I worked with them years ago. Shall I speak to them? Do you think they would be willing to help or do you think I will just need to resign? I don´t know what to do and how they would take it, which also terrifies me.