Continued from Part 1 of Florence’s story.
When it comes to serial expat challenges, the most common themes are isolation, missing family and friends, culture shocks, language barriers, food differences, and the weariness of repeating the same patterns with every new move.
For us, one of the biggest challenges of our expatriate life was our experience as a “split family.” What was supposed to be three-year arrangement ended up lasting more than twice as long; for eight years, my husband Alex spent Monday to Friday in Pakistan or India, and his weekends with me and our two children in Dubai.
