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Almost everyone I have met on the road, and I include myself in this group, was "running away" from/to something. Usually lone males whose relationships have come to an end or failed to get off the ground in the first place. Crisis, like a wake-up call, prompts us to look at what we have and don't have, reasess values and look at what we can afford to lose set against the potential gain. You realise that you are sitting on assets that you will only continue to accumulate, that going to work everyday is a mug's game and that the significant other in your life, was actually holding you back from achieving true potential.

If one has been unwise enough to breed, however, then tough. Sorry, but your place is at home until they are old enough to fly the coop. Now is not the time to be off risking your life in strange lands.

Wouldn't this be best off in "Women's Topics" - Isn't that what it's for?
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I started my trip aged 40, recently divorced and no children. Or to be more specific.. no relationship, no responsibilities, nowhere to live (we had to sell our flat..), solvent (... and then we split the proceeds), and, as luck would have it, my job coming to an end. So what was a sad time in my life became a fantastic opportunity.

But the split came first. Until the divorce, I had no expectation of travelling like this.. until we both retired.

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Wouldn't this be best off in "Women's Topics" - Isn't that what it's for?
.. err.. the last I saw, as many men have children as women ;-)
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Yeah but...
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Oh, and by the way, Stretcher Monkey..

.. err.. the last I saw, as many men have children as women ;-)
Mike,

This post is definitely coming from a woman, (not so crazy wife), and in IMHO it is very much a female perspective. In the real world how many women leave their children in the care of their confused husbands and bugger-off, rarely or never to be seen again? Not much, but does the reverse happen? ...f'sure! All the time.
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All too true, Stretcher Monkey. Sad (IMHO) but true. But would you or I have spotted the question if it was posted in "Women's Topics"? I'm guessing that Crazywife is looking for answers from the men here as well as the women. And just as I never look at posts about 4WDs or BMWs, I don't look there either.

(Sorry for getting away from the original question.)
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All too true, Stretcher Monkey. Sad (IMHO) but true. But would you or I have spotted the question if it was posted in "Women's Topics"? I'm guessing that Crazywife is looking for answers from the men here as well as the women. And just as I never look at posts about 4WDs or BMWs, I don't look there either.

(Sorry for getting away from the original question.)
Hello again,

Yes indeed I am a woman looking for answers from people who know better than I do. I am trying to figure out if the desire to travel can overcome the desire of having more children and if the one we have deserves to grow up without his dad who wants to travel around the world, and that may be one day we will join him.....unfortunately now it is not the time for us (our son and I), but as other people replied sometimes people are at such point in their life that they decide to leave evreything else behind and start a new life. This is valid for both my husband and I , so that is why I am looking for answers, hopefully that helps

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A shorter trip might be a good start and then see how it goes?

Just a thought.
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