The Untold Truth About Full Time Travel | My Spouse Doesn't Want to Move Abroad!
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- In this video, we dive into a viewer's dilemma about whether he should push his spouse to move abroad with him for full-time travel. He is contemplating selling their home in Australia to start a new chapter in a different country, but his wife is hesitant due to family ties. Join us as we provide advice on this important decision and discuss the implications of moving away from loved ones. If you're facing a similar situation or just curious about the topic, this video is for you. Let's explore the pros and cons and the truth about full time travel, together!
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My actual scenario years ago..... we had discussed retiring early and moving overseas for 20 years.
Me: "We have more than enough money invested and I am retiring next year and moving overseas".
Spouse: "I'm not sure that I am ready".
Me: "Next year I am retiring and moving overseas, would you like to come with me"?
Spouse: "Yes"
Now the spouse is happy as could be, and the travels have continued for almost 20 years now.
Set your goals and do them. No excuses.
I absolutely love your story! Thank you so much for sharing it!
Absolutely true!!
I really don’t know what I would do if I were in a predicament where my spouse didn’t want to travel!
I would potentially have done what you did.
Thanks for watching:)
I like the idea of a compromise: traveling a few months, going home for a few months. I could see my husband and I taking that option and just renting an Air BNB when we're back home.
I think that’s what truly makes a marriage work, compromise:)
thats the conclusion angie and frank came to after 13 years of travel. and they appear very old and weary now....not vibrant or regenerated, sadly
@@TruthInspector who are Angie and Frank?
So funny when Julie said "say you live in Oregon"... LOL! That's where we live! My husband and I are 3 yrs out from retirement and throwing around the idea of testing the waters by doing 1-yr of travel throughout Europe, such as 3mos staying in anAibBnb in a few different counties to see how we like it. I'm reluctant to sell our home and get rid of everything without a dry-run first. Not sure how I'll feel leaving our son and grandson, also here in Oregon, but at least knowing it's only for 1-yr will make it easier. Thank you both as always, for another great video. You guys are a wealth of knowledge, and it's truly appreciated! We'd love to make it out to Montenegro at some point! The view from your home is breathtaking! Cheers! ❤
This video was just a bit of a spur of the moment for us and Oregon just popped into my head as I was speaking:)
I think you have a really fantastic plan. If you don’t have to sell the home to enjoy a year out, it’s the perfect solution to test the waters. Our biggest regret is having sold all real estate in the US, but that’s because it doubled in value in the past two years.
Best of luck 😊Thanks for watching. We appreciate the kind compliments.
My new husband and I plan on keeping one house and traveling multiple times per year, touching home base every couple months. He sees his son a couple times a year and I only see my family once a year. Visits to family can simply be another of many trips.
Great plans! I completely concur that visits to Family can certainly be just one of many trips. Thanks for watching:)
Thanks for this video! It encapsulates a number of issues we're facing as we look to retirement travel. We've decided to keep our paid off house - our daughter and another renter are living in it currently and to come back 3 times a year to see family. That's a solution that addresses my wife's concerns as we look to launch full time at the beginning of 2025. We'll be putting up videos of our adventures so please follow along.
That sounds like a good strategy. Have fun and will look forward to your videos.
Our one regret is not keeping at least one of the houses we had in Florida, but to be fair that is because the real estate market exploded from 2020 to 2023.
The house we sold more than doubled since we left.
I’m very glad to hear the video addresses mini issues.
Best of luck in your endeavors :)
Thanks for watching .
I am so glad for you, and wish you well with your plans!. All the Best.
Thanks 😊
Great to hear ideas from fellow Aussies.
Our plan is to spend 3 months in Europe twice a year in the shoulder seasons. So a 50/50 between exploring the other side of the world and our home country.
Great work guys 👍
That’s a wonderful plan. I think there are so many variations of this and it’s all dependent on desires and finances.
Compromise is key to the perfect relationship.
Thanks for watching:)
Thanks for bringing up a very real topic that is discussed in many households with no easy amicable resolution. I am unfortunately one of them. I am sure i had mentioned in either your channel or elsewhere, my burning desire to spend a minimum of 2 years doing slow travel exploring Europe and my spouse not very open. We are just retired have no issue with Funds and have a very comfortable bandwidth to accomplish without a second thought. In the last 3 years we have taken 4 trips of 3 week duration (that's my wife's threshold time limit 🙃) to Lot of places in Italy (love it), Greece, Lisbon, Porto, Madeira, Brussels, London, Paris, Spain, Malaysia spending practically a week min in each place. The problem with doing 3 week trips is the flight each time, preparing for the flight etc. I like to buy a condo in Spain (in the Costa Del Sol area ) very affordable to call it my home base and shuffle between there and non Schengen, get a car, travel as much as you can doing slow travel. In my opinion as one gets older, its time to ditch all the worldly possessions accumulated (aka junk and hard to part with) minimalize, get out and enjoy for a year or two and may be come back to your original home in US. There is a saying "Man Proposes and God Disposes" - In every sense its true in real life!
We failed to mention that we had many people who have asked for our help with this matter. We realized it after we completed the video.
I remember your story very well.
I hope you guys can compromise and make travel work for both of you.
Thanks for watching:)
Great video guys as always. Yes, both people need to be all in on this, it's a serious change in lifestyle. I few taster trips of a few months at a time should do enough to either convince the couple to do it or not. Keep the home, try it for a year, if you like it and don't need the home - go back and sell it. The best thing for us was the liberation of getting rid of all our stuff. Life is no longer stuff, it's experiences. Thanks again for bringing great content on this topic. So many people have the dream, yet so few can execute. This can help them.
Thanks for the excellent response and for watching:)
These are the conversations my wife & I are currently having 👍
We didn’t realize it, but we neglected to say not only did we receive this email, but we are often emailed about this topic and have many RUclips comments on it as well. It certainly is a hot topic.
Thanks for watching :)
Communication is a critical factor with couples.
We chat about where we want to go. We used to travel a lot before we had our daughter. Our biggest concern is how to cope when our daughter goes off to college 😢
Absolutely! Communication and compromise are key to all relationships especially this lifestyle.
I agree, rent the home in your hometown. Family behind is a tough one. We miss our grandchildren tremendously. Going overseas to slow travel is not a forever thing. Try and see where it takes you.
Thanks for watching:)
Great conversation, thank you guys!
You are very welcome! Thanks for watching:)
Great video and discussion. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching:)
My thought is if you have a home base overseas just save and offer to pay part of the adult children and grands travelonce a year . Some grands are old enough to spend summers with Grandparents while parents work. Gives them a different perspective and educational .
I face time my Grand and gonna plan on visit every other year . Who said the Grandparents have to do all the work . The adult kids are more likely to visit with financial support to do so especially in this economy if you can do so.
That’s a great idea for many people. Our son visits us and enjoys seeing other countries.
Thanks for watching:)
You guys are so funny. Great subject, I will keep you updated on the progress - Brad
Please do! Thanks for watching:)
Cheers 🍻
Thanks for watching:)
Regarding keepsakes give them to your children now- they’ll get it all anyway and give them the choice of keeping/discarding it.
We did that too. We sold the things they did not want.
Thanks for watching:)
Hi Warren and Julie, I love the view from your apartment! You got a bargain there. Is there anything else along there with that view for sale? Does the car noise bother you when on the terrace?
I do think there are properties along the same road but the last open unit in this villa was just sold.
Thanks for watching:)
If you need a realtor please email us At Warrenjulietravel@gmail.com
Thank you for following up on my emails with this great video. I’ll let you know how we go with our plans, once we figure out the next 6 months.
We enjoyed doing this video:) We look forward to your updates!
Bonjour Mon amis :)
Bonjour:)
Thanks for watching.
Thanks. I got a lot out of your video. I have had a burning desire to do something similar to you for probably 10 years. See the world, experience cultures, etc. We could easily slow travel on the rent we would get from our house. Just turned 60 and see options slowly slipping away. Will I regret not doing it in 15 years time, will this turn into resentment? My wife isn’t interested. We live a great life on the beach in Sydney. Children/grand children. Dogs are defacto kids (can’t travel with dogs from Australia-or more accurately can’t bring them back because of strict quarantine laws particularly in relation to rabies). So I live vicariously through you tube channels like yours….for the time being anyway.
This is such a difficult dilemma for so many people and we had no idea how many couples out there are dealing with this. From time to time we’ve received emails and numerous comments throughout different videos we’ve done, but there seems to be quite a lot of people in your position. There’s really no easy answer for it. I think a few people have some great ideas of doing some shorter jobs of a month as a test run for their spouse. Perhaps, the unwilling spouse will get the travel bug like many and realize what they’re missing out on or perhaps they’ll realize that they actually don’t appreciate the lifestyle. It’s always worth a try..
Best of luck to you. Thanks for watching. :)
Thanks so much for your response. I travel overseas with my wife once a year and by myself another time. She loves places like New York, Vancouver, Banff, Barcelona, Florence, Greek Islands, etc. so we do that together & her limit is 2 weeks before she has to be back with the kids/dogs/Australian lifestyle. I particularly love everywhere in SE Asia,& India, Sri Lanka, so I do that alone. Recently I went to Mexico and Peru. I know I’m very lucky to be able to do that and am grateful.
But in the end I see that as a couple of fun holidays and completely different to doing what you do. Completely different. I would love to and I have a strong yearning to slow travel the world for the next 10 years with a couple of weeks a year back in Australia for family reasons. But she doesn’t and as you say this difference in lifestyle perspectives/priorities is pretty common amongst your viewers. Given I love my wife I’m not sure there is an easy answer to it! You both seem to be on the same page which is great and lucky.
I would never sell the home I owned because you will never be able to buy back into that market. Particularly eastern seaboard in Australia.
I thank god I am single and I don't have to make these decisions.
You are no longer living with your children. And your grand children are not your children. In fact, they have their own very busy lives too.
Staying in touch today is easy. Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Mobile Phones, Whatsapp etc make contact so easy compared to even 10 or 20 years ago.
Yes, the one regret we have is that we sold our homes in Florida. Of course, the regret we have is that they have doubled value in the last two years.
I completely agree, staying in touch is extremely simple in today’s world. Thanks for watching. :)
@@WarrenJulieTravel Prices in Florida have gone through the roof.
Yes they have:(
where is this location
If you’re speaking to our home base, we are on the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro.
The point of this video is great… literally great. But having no children and the same being the case for my significant other, the bigger issue (I would say the threshold issue) seems to be, are both of you on the same page relative to what you want to do with the upcoming years of your life. If one wants to travel and the other wants to further build their career, and in order to do that the other is at least somewhat tied down in time and space to the location of that career, that is a real problem. And I would think there are countless variations on this fact pattern relative to when, where and how one of you wants to spend the relatively immediate future. So, at least to childless me, immediate family just isn’t that big of an issue. But, how much you are in sync with your partner’s desires, goals, etc., is the biggest issue. Though I guess for people who are so used to being around their family that it drives them nuts / leaves them longing to be away from them, that’s just their particular subset of my last statement.
I think there are many variations to this issue. We could certainly have gone on and on with this discussion, but we would lose viewers quickly.
It’s really a tough conundrum. It really is all about compromise.
Sometimes, people don’t realize the joys of traveling like this until they have tried. A career is important, but if it’s not essential for financial independence, it really comes down to compromise and giving up things in order to experience a completely different life.
Thanks for watching:)
I agree and furthermore one partner might enjoy slow budget travel whilst the other partner wants fast luxurious travel and everything in between!
That’s absolutely true!