5/25/2023 0 Comments Lonely are the brave zip![]() But I think place attachment can be malleable. My community.” And it doesn’t have to be only for your home, but a place you visit on vacation or your grandparents’ home. The feeling you get when you drive into town and think, “Oh, it’s so good to be home!” The feeling that “This is my place. That’s how I started to learn about place attachment.Ī: I think of it as the “no-place-like-home” feeling. I realized I needed to figure out how to do that. I wanted to put down roots for me and my kids-ages 5 and 10 at the time. But it occurred to me that there was something I was doing wrong. Every time you move, it’s lonely and chaotic. ![]() Then when he accepted a job offer at Virginia Tech, we moved to Blacksburg, VA, which is a little town. We kept thinking, “What are we doing wrong?” But although we had friends there who would never live anywhere else, it wasn’t like that for me or my husband. ![]() When we got to Texas-specifically Austin-we had high expectations that it would be that perfect place. So every few years, we moved-to Maryland, Utah, Iowa, Texas. But when I got married, my husband was used to moving around a lot. I lived on the same street in Southern California until I was 18. A: I was one of those kids who never moved.
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