Expatriate's wednesday: can anybody expatriate ?

Nice staircase, isn't ?  Gave me the urge to use my camera;Strange staircase, don't you think ? It seems to lead nowhere!
I can imagine that you just climb the steps to find a new way !

I was talking the other day with an expatriate friend who was telling me about a young French woman; let's call her Isabelle (which is not her real name),
They met a few years ago when their families were expatriated to Barcelona.Isabelle hated her life in Barcelona;
Following the words of my friend, I understood that Isabelle's distress was showing on her face

her situation apparently didn't improveIsabelle's social isolation worsened
What did she decides to do, I do not know
Some might say:
"What ? But Barcelona is a great city! It's so alive and there's so much to discover, like XXX!"Everyone is free to change the Xs with their own words; like architecture, museums, beaches, concerts and so on,

objectively, there are a lot of exciting things to discover in Barcelona, like anywhere in the world . . .
No doubt about that, but sometimes the chemistry doesn't work
The reasons are as numerous as the people;
A new environment can awaken many psychic mechanisms for each individual
only taking time to recognise the distress and do something with it could help understand it and live with it
In the case of Isabelle, my friend described me a person who had moved to Barcelona in "carrying" with her all of her old environment: ideas, desires, reactions, and above all expectations ... and thus found herself constantly at odds, once immerged in her new environmentfeeling everything like an agression

and I would add, probably living in a great state of fragility
The pain of that person had to be importantAs I can imagine her husband's and her children's probably as well; maybe if unspoken
If I trust the different testimonies I have had, the pain of expatriation may arise during an initial expatriation, as well as during a followinf one it depends of what is awaken from a new place, a new status (being a first time mother, or on the contrary having all the children gone, job loss etc ... etc ... etc ...)
The first signs to be aware of are probably
social isolation, guilt, anger, illness
These indicators have to be recognised, accepted and taken into account
What do you think?Have you heard about this kind of situation ?

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