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hmonkey

are you here?  have you and your fi decided about the job in alice springs?

Amt2109

Hey

Well, despite my misgivings - which I didn't talk to him too much about because I recognised they were mostly things within myself, you know? That once we got there everything would be fine. Anyway, I told him to go ahead and put in for it, and we'd figure stuff out later if it came to it.

I guess he had a good talk with his co-worker about it (who's in a similar situation with his wife on the green card thing). Once I get my green card, apparently I can't be out of the States for more than six months or its a breach of commitment to become an American. Now that he's heard it from someone other than me he believes it I guess (he just kept telling me its American soil and would be fine) and decided its best to keep our family together for now.

Though I feel bad in a way... I know he resents being held in the States... and its not a resentment towards me thing... more of a he REALLY has itchy feet right now. A three month deployment thing would help but the waiting lists for those are huge right now.

We both still want to get out of MD so he's going to keep looking. March is the end of his two years probation thing at work so he'll have more chance to move into other areas which could make that easier.

Thanks for everyones encouragement and support... I'm sorry it seemed like I didn't come back to the conversation, I did eventually - I often forget I'm on the computer and get busy doing other things... but I always come back and check