Great news but mixed emotions
Would you like the good news or the bad news first?
The good news? I have booked my tickets to NZ and Australia, leaving London for good on Thursday 7th October 2010.
The bad news? Other than having to fork out my hard earned money to pay for them, I suddenly realised that perhaps I’m not quite as ok with going on ahead by myself as I thought I was. Sure, in the 4.5 years that the man and I have been together, we have spent time apart. He has worked 5 day events in other countries (yes, Scotland and Ireland are considered ‘other countries’) and at times we were out of contact for a few days (usually because he hadn’t taken his phone charger with him). But there was always an end date to the separation, a return flight or set time that we would see each other again. At this point in time I have tickets to Australia and he doesn’t. That means no set date to end this separation, no known number of days to count down or mark off the calendar.
And hot on the heels of this revelation comes the question “how do you balance the emotional rollercoaster of joy and excitement at seeing your family again and sadness and reluctance to leave your partner behind, trusting that he will soon follow?”
Added to this is the stress of knowing you still have to pack everything, find a freight company to send it to Australia and make sure the luggage you take on the plane is light enough to not incur excess baggage fees but diverse enough to get you through 2 months in a new country, including job interviews.
So while I’m finally happy to have confirmed tickets to leave, suddenly life just got a lot more complicated!
This post tagged as: australia, separation, Travel
21
Aug
take some his favourite things with you and he will have to book his tickets and follow you lol…Great to hear you are on the way!
is getting him deported an option? i know this guy, that knows this guy in invercargil…
Great minds Kirsty! I’m planning on packing all our stuff to be freighted before I leave and that includes his beloved bike and Xbox
Slink, I don’t know if a UK citizen can be deported from his own country….but if your guy can get in touch with this guy I know in Cuba……
Don’t count on the Xbox working… I still use some other guys PS2, right, Hunny?
Hey man, don’t burst my carefully nurtured bubble! But (not so) funnily enough, I’m currently in the middle of an email war with an ex about some of my stuff that I left in NZ which apparently is now ‘missing’ (which I read to mean: given to the new wife as a present). Am getting to the point where I’m going to have to play hardball and insist on getting a statement from his mum for insurance because if my things are missing then ‘surely that could only be because the place was broken into and only my things were stolen’.
I refuse to back down – the fate of my oil painting of the Greek Islands is at stake (oh, and my framed university degree – yeah, because I can definitely see someone wanting to steal a degree with someone else’s name on it!!!)
whats your degree in…it could be a collectors item you know he holds it now and when your dead famous it would be one of a kind and worth a packet
So it must be a collectors item now then? Jimi is dead famous in our eyes!
Aww shucks *blushes*