homesick

[duskiness]

Any advice how to cope with homesickness??

I moved out from my home and country in September. I'm going back there for 2 weeks for Christmas

it's not that i feel it all time, and i feel really good here, i like people around me and this new place..
but sometimes (weekends...) it comes and it's so strong, all i can feel and think is just how much i miss my family, friends, language, food, smells, everything!!

 

[janny108]

Any advice how to cope with homesickness??

I moved out from my home and country in September. I'm going back there for 2 weeks for Christmas

it's not that i feel it all time, and i feel really good here, i like people around me and this new place..
but sometimes (weekends...) it comes and it's so strong, all i can feel and think is just how much i miss my family, friends, language, food, smells, everything!!

What prompted to move to another country? Are you in the military? I had my share of that, I used to be active army. Seems one way to combat those feelings is to have an appreciation of where you are. Try their foods, get out in the town and sight see. I've lived in Germany and Italy. In Germany there was a German American contact club where we'd do things together with locals. It's normal to feel homesick when you miss the familiar. But look at the new experiences you could later share with your family and friends about your life now.
Jan

 

[rocklife]

Seems one way to combat those feelings is to have an appreciation of where you are. Try their foods, get out in the town and sight see. I've lived in Germany and Italy. In Germany there was a German American contact club where we'd do things together with locals. It's normal to feel homesick when you miss the familiar. But look at the new experiences you could later share with your family and friends about your life now.
Jan

sounds like good advice

what about phone calls to old family or friends? that helped me sometimes

 

[stealingheaven]

for you.

I know too well what it's like to be homesick. My family live in Australia and I live in the UK. I've lived away from from my family for 11 years now but it has been 7 years since I last saw them. I am struggling like never before with homesickness at the moment.

Things that I do or have done that have helped me, are email regularly and have telephone conversations fortnightly on a regular basis so that I have something to look forward to. I send photos in emails as attachments. Text messages (if that's possible between the countries), I've sat and chatted to a cassette recorder and sent it to my family, and vice versa, it's nice, I'll sit and listen whilst having a cup of tea and imagine we're all in the same room together just chatting and I've also sent videos. I pray all the time for my family and for God to comfort me during the really hard times when I'm missing them so much that it hurts and He does comfort me.

Is there anywhere you might be able to find an international shop that imports or could possibly import goods from your home country?

I feel for you because I know just what its like.

 

[gizzergaz]

Homesickness is different for everyone, but for me I do better when I keep busy. The less I think of home the less I miss it. I love my family so much, and when I have time to just sit and think I start to get homesick. So I try not to give myself time to just sit and think. But the occasional phone calls do make it better. I hope you feel better. God Bless.

 

[yodafett]

As trite as it sounds, the only way that I was able to overcome it was to start filling some of those voids as they popped up. I made friends in my new home. I started finding groups that I fit in with. I made contacts and made where I live now, my home.

 

[ephraimanesti]

Any advice how to cope with homesickness??

I moved out from my home and country in September. I'm going back there for 2 weeks for Christmas

it's not that i feel it all time, and i feel really good here, i like people around me and this new place..
but sometimes (weekends...) it comes and it's so strong, all i can feel and think is just how much i miss my family, friends, language, food, smells, everything!!

MY DEAR SISTER,

As Christians, we are all HOMESICK--we are just passing through here below as pilgrims and strangers in a strange land!

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However, my suggestion for dealing with the homesicknesses you describe is in immerse yourself in a Church Home/Family and use this support as a substitute for your biological family/home/country. If you place yourself into a situation with a group of fellow believers where you are all bound together before God by the Holy Spirit, i think perhaps you will be surprised at how well your mental/emotional/and spiritual needs will be met. Offer what you have left behind up to the Lord, and as our Lord promised, things which we have left behind and offer up to Him will be returned to us a hundredfold.

MAY YOU BE BLESSED AND KNOW HAPPINESS, PEACE, AND JOY IN YOUR NEW SITUATION!

IN CHRIST,
ephraim

 

[duskiness]

What prompted to move to another country? Are you in the military?

no, studies...i'm here as exchange student.

what about phone calls to old family or friends? that helped me sometimes

oh...I'm addicted skype user. but it sometimes gives you that hard feeling after. you had a glimps of ehat you miss, so you remember better how it was...

I've sat and chatted to a cassette recorder and sent it to my family, and vice versa, it's nice, I'll sit and listen whilst having a cup of tea and imagine we're all in the same room together just chatting and I've also sent videos.

That's really a great idea!

I pray all the time for my family and for God to comfort me during the really hard times when I'm missing them so much that it hurts and He does comfort me.

i somehow find it difficult to pray then. I don't know why. I'm probably too much preoccupied with my feeling to turn to Him

Is there anywhere you might be able to find an international shop that imports or could possibly import goods from your home country?

you made a good point once again. I have forgotten about that

I feel for you because I know just what its like.

all the best Stealingheaven!

Homesickness is different for everyone, but for me I do better when I keep busy. The less I think of home the less I miss it. I love my family so much, and when I have time to just sit and think I start to get homesick. So I try not to give myself time to just sit and think. But the occasional phone calls do make it better. I hope you feel better. God Bless.

It's the same for me! That's why Sundays are the worst! I have little to do.
And I'm better. It's Monday..ups...Wednesday I was busy whole day

I made contacts and made where I live now, my home.

so like always time is a healer?? Do you really stop missing parents, brother, people you know most of your life?

However, my suggestion for dealing with the homesicknesses you describe is in immerse yourself in a Church Home/Family

- there is a problem of language. But i attend polish Mass, which is held once a week. But that can hardly be called "immersion"

I wanted to thank you all here!
I wanted to come here, i like being here, it a great advanture.
But there are bad moments, and this post was a product of such a moment.
As silly and simple i would sound i need to here that's it's normal and that there or other going through same thing.
Bless you all!

 

[JPPT1974]

Praying that you will lean on the Lord
To give you no more homesickness
Sorry that you feel that way
He will never leave nor forsake you at all.

 

[yodafett]

so like always time is a healer?? Do you really stop missing parents, brother, people you know most of your life?

I wouldn't so much say it in those words that "Time is a healer", but that over time, you'll find people where you are, and you'll get closer to them than (most of) the friends you were close to back home. I have one friend I've known for...17 years (has it really been that long?!?) and NO ONE will ever replace him, but we both understand that we'r ein different places now, and we're both married, he has 2 children, so even if we still lived 5 minutes apart, we'd still not have the same relationship that we did when I lived there.

Maybe convince a few of your friends to sign up on here.

If you're following the LORD's will, He has a reason for you being there. Have faith in Him and in that.