Day: December 24, 2006
Repatriating Graduating Teens
TIP SHEET FOR REPATRIATING GRADS Did you see the university first? Research has shown that one of the biggest complaints by repatriating grads...
Repatriation Can Be a Grieving Process
Grief is an unspoken emotional legacy of repatriation, not unlike re-entry shock itself. The shock of coming home is a silent culture shock which...
Repatriate Your Career
The professional question which torments so many accompanying expatriate partners when they move overseas is what do you do? But the one heard most...
Repatriating Loved Ones from Abroad
Even under the best of circumstances, it’s difficult to lose a loved one. But how would you feel if you said goodbye to a...
What is Re-entry Shock?
Re-entry shock is simply the shock of being home. It’s the reverse culture shock you experience in your own country when you visit places...
A Home Leave Diary
Day One: Did I honestly think I would find the time write in this travel journal during Home Leave? In between my terrible jet lag,...
Husbands Who Travel
My husband used to get positively apoplectic when I would tell him his constant business travel made me feel like a ‘single parent without...
Infidelity Abroad
Infidelity abroad happens frequently and is invariably the man’s, according to Jeremy Morley, a British lawyer working in New York City and founder of...
What is a Global Soul?
What is a global soul? A postmodern wanderer, according to travel writer and essayist Pico Iyer, is a global soul; a person who often...
Lost in the Move: Identity
Family therapists who counsel expatriates agree that grief is an overlooked dimension of the culture shock cycle. In the second in a series about...