Hello everyone!
I am quite new to the forum but have lived on the south of the island now for 13 months with my 6 year old son while my husband works back in the uk 3 weeks of the month and visits us for 1 week.
The reason my husband moved us out here is to make a better life for our son as in getting away from the crime and constant decline of the uk with no sign of it getting any better. To be able to go to sleep at nite without worrying someone is going to break in and rob you while your sleeping in your bed or that you are going to be attacked in broad daylight while just walking down the street or worse, i think you all know what im talking about.
You may think how can we be apart for so long? Well in the uk he works all silly shifts, was always tired and we never really spent much quality time together but living here he comes over for 1 week a month and hes all ours!
The other reason was he was waiting to be made redundant so he could get his redundancy money. Only trouble is the redundancy came, he came over to be with us and to find work but due to debt etc the only work he could find out here didnt pay enough to meet our monthly outgoings forcing him to get work back in the uk again and going back to our 1 week a month visit.
Now i know a lot of you will read this and think well it hasnt worked out the way you planned and as with a lot of other people who move here for the better life and it doesnt work out you just have to pack your bags and give up the dream but there is no way im going to do that.
There is no way i am taking our son away from this beautiful island to live in a country that is going down the pan!
Saying all that we do have other options that we are exploring but that will take time to sort out.
In the meantime, i feel i am getting stuck in a rut (especially with the school hols) cause although my son is at summer school the hours he is there prevents me from finding any work that fits in and i do not really know anyone who can sit for me. I have limited funds and can not pay for sitters, even if i did work.
So the moral of the story is, i get up, entertain my kid, put him to bed, drink a bottle of wine, go to bed, feeling like whats happened to my life????
I do have a lot of associates and 1 really good friend but she has her own family to entertain.
Im just not having any fun anymore and seem to have exhausted every idea to i can think of to get amongst it. Think i ve give up now to be honest.
Can anybody come up with any ideas to get me motivated and meet new people (perphas in the same sort of situation).
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