Like many of you, this is my first post. I am entering my late 40s, perimenopausal, happily married, and a dog mom. I moved to Spain this year from the US. It has been a strange time since this was my life dream and also we left because we no longer felt safe as a queer couple. Living here has been more wonderful than I anticipated. I love the scale of life here, small grocery stores I walk to frequently, small baskets of laundry drying on the line, amazing and affordable local fruits and veg in season. It feels like a human scale life rather than the fast paced striving life I left in the states. I also feel like I should be fighting for my home country and do not know how while abroad. I am finding ways to volunteer here, which feels like something but not enough. I am grateful for this corner of the internet; it makes me feel less alone as we live in the both/and of this current world.
Hi Nic and amazing community!
Like many of you, this is my first post. I am entering my late 40s, perimenopausal, happily married, and a dog mom. I moved to Spain this year from the US. It has been a strange time since this was my life dream and also we left because we no longer felt safe as a queer couple. Living here has been more wonderful than I anticipated. I love the scale of life here, small grocery stores I walk to frequently, small baskets of laundry drying on the line, amazing and affordable local fruits and veg in season. It feels like a human scale life rather than the fast paced striving life I left in the states. I also feel like I should be fighting for my home country and do not know how while abroad. I am finding ways to volunteer here, which feels like something but not enough. I am grateful for this corner of the internet; it makes me feel less alone as we live in the both/and of this current world.