Hello everyone,
I am almost 23 years old and I moved to France about 3 weeks ago because I have accepted an English teaching assistant position at a university in northern France. My SO and I had been close friends all through college but didn't start a relationship until about a month before we graduated. He's moved down south to be in law school and I'm here for the year. We'll see each other after Christmas, and we're trying to set up a way for him to come visit me in mid-March. If we still are working out, I will return sometime next summer.
Now that I've settled down here our relationship is now really facing some difficult issues. I've been struggling trying to get by without him, and I've been pretty depressed lately along with self-confidence issues. I've recently discovered that sometimes we just differ too much on how to help each other. I don't necessarily need any advice, I just need comfort and support. While he supports me, comfort is not his forte. He is loving, but he can say insensitive things sometimes. I tell him that, and he gets upset, which makes me feel guilty and worse, etc.
I have another post titled "In a Rut and Having Some Depression Issues" in the Work Abroad/International forum. All I am looking for is other people who are in the same situation I'm in to just tell me that it'll be okay and I'll make it through this. It can be easily forgotten when I'm over here and I need to be reminded by others sometimes.
Thanks for reading my post. Take care!
I am almost 23 years old and I moved to France about 3 weeks ago because I have accepted an English teaching assistant position at a university in northern France. My SO and I had been close friends all through college but didn't start a relationship until about a month before we graduated. He's moved down south to be in law school and I'm here for the year. We'll see each other after Christmas, and we're trying to set up a way for him to come visit me in mid-March. If we still are working out, I will return sometime next summer.
Now that I've settled down here our relationship is now really facing some difficult issues. I've been struggling trying to get by without him, and I've been pretty depressed lately along with self-confidence issues. I've recently discovered that sometimes we just differ too much on how to help each other. I don't necessarily need any advice, I just need comfort and support. While he supports me, comfort is not his forte. He is loving, but he can say insensitive things sometimes. I tell him that, and he gets upset, which makes me feel guilty and worse, etc.
I have another post titled "In a Rut and Having Some Depression Issues" in the Work Abroad/International forum. All I am looking for is other people who are in the same situation I'm in to just tell me that it'll be okay and I'll make it through this. It can be easily forgotten when I'm over here and I need to be reminded by others sometimes.
Thanks for reading my post. Take care!
I was an assistant in the Centre in 2010/2011. That was the reason that my SO and I became long distance and the reason I found this website! Now i'm one of the weirdos that sticks around here even though we closed the distance 2+ years ago! 
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