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When your spouse wants to relocate for family but you'd lose your community

My husband wants to move back to his hometown to be closer to his aging parents but all my friends and my whole support system is here and I feel like I have to choose between being a good wife and having a life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The competing claims of marriage, extended family, and chosen community create an impossible geometry of loyalty.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Belonging and identity — who belongs here?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.