Great Question! And a pertinent one to me in a very strange way….
For a long time I didn’t feel attached to my family or a home and I moved away to college and lived with a boyfriend for a few years,...I didn’t feel homesick in the slightest and I look back now and wonder how I did it!! I felt so comfortable. I then moved back home and was got into another abusive relationship and the relationships between me and my family were strained to say the least because they disagreed with what I was doing…
Years later I have moved out and live round the corner from my mum and dad, I have never been closer to all of them and feel I need them very much… I’ve not had the homesick feeling since I was a child but I experience this whenever I leave my home now…even when I go round to my parents house to stay (like over Christmas – just for one night) I always feel a little homesick. I want to be in my own home, safe.
I once went up to Scotland to see a friend which is 6 hour drive away and felt terribly homesick…it was one of the worst experiences of my life… I felt like I had nothing to hang on to…I was so scared and lost and felt like I was dying…
I think @gemiwing ‘s posts are amazing and have some brilliant advice.
The actual feeling of being homesick, I think, is one of the most terrifying I’ve ever had…I’d love to know more about this phenomenon and which factors go into it…because it does seem like no other…and I’m not sure whether ultimately it is an attachment to something, some-one, or some people, a place… or an attachment to something inside of us that I can’t put my finger on…