After accompanying her husband across two continents, Michelle found herself taking an early retirement in Goa — her home. Or was it?
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Before Becoming Goan: A Trailing-Spouse Story (Part 4)
Michelle spent 18 years as a trailing spouse in three countries before moving back to India — where her adjustment adventures continued, after all.
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If summertime happens to be when you feel a yearning for some new reading material, here’s a trio of options for trailing and towing spouses alike.
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Career TransitionsExpat ExperiencesTrailing Kids
Before Becoming Goan: A Trailing-Spouse Story (Part 2)
After a decade of expat life in Dubai, my husband was transferred to Thailand. Our family welcomed the opportunity to learn about a new culture — both modern and with a long, rich history.
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Before writing ‘Becoming Goan,’ I became an expat, following my husband from India to Dubai on the first of several corporate relocations over 18 years.
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One of my biggest expat challenges was our long-distance “split family” life. For 8 years, my husband spent weekdays working in South Asia, and weekends with us in Dubai.
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My new novel tells the story of the interweaving lives of a British expat woman and her Filipina maid in Malaysia. It’s ultimately a tale of love, belonging and discovery — loosely based on my own experiences as a trailing spouse.
Before Becoming Goan: A Trailing-Spouse Story (Part 3)
After five years in Bangkok, including the last two as a split household while my husband worked in London and our son finished high school, our family reunited in (cold, wet, gray) London.
For anyone who has spent decades as an expat trailing spouse, seeing your children leave the nest and your husband become a stay-at-home retiree is a major change of life, dynamics and pace.
I was a young Swiss woman, living a beautiful love story with my boyfriend. One evening, he took me to dinner and told me he’d been offered a job in West Africa…