freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Slave Relocation (10/12/2013 1:37:20 PM)
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ORIGINAL: TigressLily Those of us with minor children aren't in a position to take off whenever the mood suits us. The same would go for someone who is caregiver for an elderly parent, relative, or disabled person. We don't have that kind of personal freedom, but it's all good. I have a teenager who's established here in this location, and I would never dream of uprooting his life if I could help it. He's a high school junior and we don't know yet which college he will end up choosing. (He's applied on line to Princeton already, so we'll see.) Well.... Maybe I'm different, stupid, altruistic, lucky, or whatever label you want to plant on me, but I believe that if someone has enough courage of their convictions, the fact of living in the wrong location or having kids living at home is not a valid excuse to reject a relocation call. Kids will carry on growing up and doing their education regardless of where you live or what school they go to. They also make new friends just as easily as they made the last lot when they started that school. In this day and age of many ways of communicating, keeping track of old friends is also really easy too. So "uprooting" their lives is just a cop-out and in many cases kids use relocation as an adventure. I think too many parents use their kids as a convenient excuse for "I haven't got the balls to relocate" or "I'm too happy ensconced in my little world here so I'm not bothering". As for being a caregiver, that too is often a convenient excuse not to relocate. If someone has been doing it for more than a year or two, isn't it about time some other member of the family took their turn in being the caregiver?? My OH dumped her hubby of 15 years and just upped-sticks and relocated to be with me at the drop of a hat early one Sunday morning without any warning or notice at all. Teenage son was brought with her and early 20's daughter (who wasn't at home at the time) was just sent a text that she was no longer living at home with hubby. We were chatting away online when she suddenly announced "meet me at xxxxx station at 2pm. I'm coming down", and she was offline and gone before I could even reply. We hadn't even spoken on the phone or seen each other's pictures, only ever chatted on AIM/Yahoo so I had no other way to contact her until she arrived. That was almost 6 years ago and to this day, we have only ever spent 2 days apart from each other. Yes, it was a brave move even if I say so myself; but shows it is more than just possible. So I dispute that people, even in those circumstances, do not have that personal freedom of choice. I call it a crap-shoot cop-out. If someone isn't prepared to invest in their own future, then I wouldn't want them as a partner/master/slave or whatever position they would have had in my life.
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