I Am Homesick

I have been living in NC for 9 years now, and it seems like for the past 5 years I have been missing my small little hometown in WV a little more every year. Now its to the point where I am just miserable where I live. I don't want to...

I grew up in a family that moved around the state. I never had that place where I could claim as a childhood home. One of the most difficult things for me is answering the question, "Where are you from?" I never know what to say...

So I decided to study abroad back in 2011. I did so last year at this time and had a wonderful time. Because of this, I decided to come back again this year.

I've been gone for three weeks and I'm pretty miserable. I don't know what...

Warning: Lots of teenage rants. You are fore-warned!

So I am feeling pre-homesickness, if such term exist. The thought of leaving home for a period of 9 months had me in tears. To think I still have a month, 2 weeks and one day left...

I'm home, or more correctly this is supposed to be my home my family lives here and I'm born here and everything but I keep missing my stepfamily and I feel so bad because when I lived with them I didn't miss my real family. I...

This is supposed to be a joyous time of year, but here I sit 1000 miles from my family and friends for the 6th holiday season in a row.  In laws are coming over, but with them come drama every at every "family" gathering.  For...

Traveling has always fascinated me: other cultures, other landscapes, other languages, the sense of freedom, or simply the fact of being on the road with nothing more than what you are carrying. So I cherished and I looked forward to...

I am not really homesick, but where I am right now, it doesn't feel like a home to me anymore. It never did feel like home, that was until my boyfriend moved in, and than it was home for me, and it was so nice. I felt loved, and felt...

I am a fulbright student, I am doing MBA in the US, I came from a developing country. Initially the problems I faced for finding a home and then the pressure of studies just after I found a home. The studies were not tough but I lagged...

I've been in this city for 2 years, but I still don't belong here.  My parents and my baby are still back where I came from.    I cried when I missed my baby's first day of kindergarten.  I should...

Strangely, yes, even though I am a fully formed adult person in middle age and own my own home, I am still homesick.  I miss the house I grew up in and the people I grew up with and the way the world was back then.

Today one of my friends was asking me a question about different places in the USA (my friend lives abroad). As we talked about different cities and other considerations, I eventually brought up my hometown, and pretty much after that...

It seems my true home is so far way. Somewhere up north, in the canadian area. I'm sure that place was probably burned to the ground a long time ago for other houses to be built. But it was my home. With the lake, the mountain, and the...

I wanted to go to work right from leaving college. I did not realize that even the sounds of people's voices, or just knowing they were there, meant so much to me. Now I just feel afraid of the sounds I hear and I get into moods of...

I was super pumped to start college. I got into a great school that seemed super awesome. However, a couple months before leaving I felt this crushing feeling- why was I going all the way across the country when I loved my family and my...

...until I started cleaning out the boys' bedroom today.
They have the game Battleship...only their game is not new, it is the one I got for Christmas in about 1974.
I was putting it away into the box...which is of course very retro...

I don'y get homesick very often and I know it will pass.I live in Australia but my home will always be Ireland.I have had such a full on week I think I've experienced every emotion this week.
I have been floating on a wee cloud most of...

The last few weeks have been a complete whirlwind. There was prospect that we may need to move, but in the end, we were given only two weeks notice of the need to relocate from Perth, Western Australia to Baku, Azerbaijan which was a...

I recently flew to canada from the uk, 6 days ago now to be precise. The town is beautiful (banff) and everyone is really friendly. im here for two months, and that already seems unbareable to me. Ive always been bad for homesickness, i...

I was away from home since 13, having been in boarding school and university.

Then, five years ago, I moved abroad for work. Dealing with homesickness was, I thought, quite easy and I usually am back to my old self after a few days of...