would you do this?

@jhl930 (3601)
United States
July 18, 2008 8:36pm CST
i just saw something on the internet and it really made me start thinking and i was just wondering what everyones opinion on this was...there was a question that if the one that you loved and could see yourself spending the rest of your life with..if they had to move half the way across the country/world...would you go with them and leave your family and everyone else that you knew to be with them(if you knew that thats the only way you could see them but you could visit your family)...this is one i thought about and i think that i would do it if i could visit my family but that would be a really tough spot to be put in...so what would all of you do if you were all put in this situation? thanks for reading my discussion and hopefully answering it...thanks again!
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18 responses
• United States
19 Jul 08
Well,this one is easy for me because my family is not really close. only me and my sister are. and my sister already lives in another state... so yes i would. plus i would love to travel. and now to think if i couldnt take my daughter i wouldnt go...
@lyzabelle (1668)
• Philippines
19 Jul 08
[b]It's hard leaving your family behind. But you got to start living with out them. If the relationship doesn't work the way it was supposed to be. You still have your family to go back to. There are new world out there. Maybe it's great for you to be away for a while. No need to worry though, you have your love one with you.[/b]
@MagieL (266)
• China
19 Jul 08
i think once if the one that i loved and could see myself spending the rest of my life with,i would do it.and i think my parents would support me if they really love me very much.^^
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@dantakum (404)
• Nigeria
19 Jul 08
well it's good to do what your heart tells you what i mean here is if you really love the person i dont see why you should think of your family first,every idividual has his/her life to live so enjoy your life to the fullest. and as long as you would creat a time to call or send mails to your family thats okay. but i dont know what you think towards this.
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@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
19 Jul 08
I've done it, on more than one occasion. My ex used to get transferred all the time with his job. You get used to it. Many people don't stay in their hometowns or even in their areas anymore. Thats why they make planes, trains and automobiles. LOL
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@tina2696 (127)
• United States
19 Jul 08
I moved to another country to be with my husband. It is a 12 hour drive just to visit my family, definitely worth it though. We've been married 13 yrs and have 2 beautiful daughters. I highly recommend moving to be with the one you love.
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
19 Jul 08
Since my s/o and I lived 1600 miles apart when we met, I did just that. I moved 1600 miles for us to be together. Leaving my family and friends behind, and the state that I had grown up in and lived in all my life, well until 3 years ago. I have never regretted making that move either, of course my family was very supportive of my move, and I ended up not only living with an amazing man but being hired for my dream job.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Jul 08
jhl930 yes I would go with my husband because I took marriage vouws to be true and to go where he goes, and I would honor those vows. I could always visit my family later but a wife belongs with her husband always.
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• United States
19 Jul 08
I had to really sit back and think about this one for a moment for I have family but everyone fights all the time noone ever really see's one another talks to one another ect. It's sad I know but it's true. I feel like I have no family because of this and I won't be apart of a family like this so I have excluded my self from alot of them and choose to live my happy life alone with just my friends and my cat. If I honestly found tht special someone someday for I amsingle as of right now but when I do find him and he wante to travel far, far away I think I would do it for he would be the only true one that I could feel close to and would love me for who I am and take me away from all this sadness I see.
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@misty99 (736)
19 Jul 08
Given this situation?I'd go,actually i got same situation before.My husband worked in another place...as you said half way across the world.It took me some time thinking when he ask me to go with him.With him so insisting and my mother's assurance that our daughter will be taken cared of, i opted to go first.After a few years our daughter followed.It is true that there are times when you have to sacrifice being with your parents,relatives and kid.But things are a bit easier now...thanks to chat rooms and web cams.
@fwangaa (3057)
• China
19 Jul 08
i will,if i can visit home that i want.if i met my heart, i will get alone with him for my whole life.if he leave the home to abroad,i will go with him.becasue if i loose him,i will not to find another one who i deeply love with.and i will very sad everyday although i live with my family and around me full of my dear friends.if i cann't visit home someday.i also go with him.and my country not very rich.if other country is very rich,why i cann't come to there,and i will have better live if i live in there.and i will find better job,and better earning too.so i must go with him,and i will feel very happy everyday.if the country that i go to is not rich.i also go with him,because he is my only heart.
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@amanda08 (647)
• United States
19 Jul 08
I would do it in a heartbeat.... I have done it.... you can always keep in touch with your family... there comes a point in time when you need to start thinking about having your own family anyway... it will actually only make the family bigger and stronger anyway... you will just live further apart!... just having the internet and web cams in these days helps alot anyway!... you can just turn on the computer and see each other at the drop of a dime... besides, love is what it's all about anyway, right?.... ;)
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• United States
19 Jul 08
In this situation i would probably deal with it in this way even though i know i would miss my parents and everyone else, i wouldn´t choose to go because your new family is the person you love and your other family members most likely do the same. My parents had to do that when they first got married 21 yrs ago, even though it was sad and consisted of adapting my mother coped with it because she knew that my father was her new family.
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• Philippines
19 Jul 08
i would go with the one i love because it is where i am happy. my family would be happy for me because of my decision and it wouldnt be difficult to communicate because of our modern technology. The question now lies is what situation would hinder you to go with the one you if your loved one wants to move half way across the country/ world?
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• United States
19 Jul 08
There is not a question in my mind what I would do. I would go with the one I loved. It was not like I could not visit them. It would be a hard decision if it had said that I could never see my family again. It is right to go where the one you love goes. That is the way it should be. No matter where the loved one goes.
• China
20 Jul 08
i guess i may do it... if that is the one i loved. i can go with him and travle around the world..althought my family might have some poinion..hehe however, i can't bear not seeing him for a long time.. like now..i can only visit him once two weeks for we work in different town and somethings we both are very busy.
@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
21 Sep 08
I moved with my husband when he got transferred. We moved 1400 KM to another province that I never knew a sole in. I left my 26 year old and 18 year kids behind and moved. This was my second husband so my 18 year old daughter moved in with her father and my 26 year old son was already on his own. It was a hard thing to do, but it worked out and later on my daughter moved to the city that I now lived in. After 5 years my husband got transferred back to the first city we were living in and I went with him then too, and left my daughter who was now 23 years old, behind again. I left my husband now, since things went so bad for us and I could no longer live with him, and moved back to the city I had moved to originally and since my daughter was here I had somewhere to live. So even though my moving with my husband didn't work out in the long run, it was the way my daughter and I both got to live in another city and that wouldn't have happened had I not originally moved with my husband the first time. So things work out the way they do for a reason.
@queenofarms (1659)
• United States
23 Jul 08
I love my family very much but I believe I'd go with my husband. But its a hard decision to have to make.