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When couples relocate based on nostalgic expectations

My wife and I moved back to my hometown thinking it would be like when I was a kid but everything has changed and she's miserable and I'm grieving the place that doesn't exist anymore and we're both trapped by a decision we made based on a memory.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Geographic nostalgia creates shared disappointment when memory collides with present reality.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Nostalgia — its function and its limits?”

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