Originally Posted by kaz101

I'm close to my family and I thought that would make it easier but apparently it hasn't. My parents came out to Oz and stayed with us for a month which was fantastic. However now my Dad has been diagnosed with depression and they have requested that I only contact them by email. No phone or Skype. Going back to the UK is not an option for us since we've settled here.

I knew there would be some emotional tough times but I wasn't expecting this.
I'm posting this to find out if anyone else has had this situation develop and if so how it was sorted out.

My first instinct was to fly back to the UK for a holiday but I'm concerned that it would make my parents worse when I left again.

I have been asking myself if I knew this would happen would I have moved? Some of you may think this harsh but I think I would. We had planned this for so long and have such a better quality of life here that I think that if I stayed in the UK or went back now I would just be so unhappy and resentful.

I agree that I haven't made the same depth of friends here that I had in the UK, but then I'd been friends with some of them for over 30 years in the UK and I've only been here 8 months

Regards,
Karen