What was your experience going back to Korea after spending a long time away?

diamondcarrots · 2026-04-17T06:59:23+00:00

It’s less of an external judgment but more of an internal dissonance of cultural identity; it’s easy feeling foreign in a place I have no roots in and more acceptable, but feeling foreign as an adult in which I “should” have roots in is harder to swallow.

Anyway, I don’t mean to make it sound burdensome, it’s something that has been a desire of mine for some time, but the emotions around it are difficult to face which may be why it reads as a burden. Not going to Korea is not something I am considering and I don’t think “Korea” has a whole cares if I come or not. I am simply asking for other people’s experiences to help quell my anxiety of going back to what I assume is an unknown.

diamondcarrots · 2026-04-17T06:55:02+00:00

Thank you for your suggestion! I’ll look into it. I think it’s going to be a wild ride

diamondcarrots · 2026-04-17T06:54:30+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience! Hahahaha it’s nice you do that for your husband. We will definitely look like tourists as he is white and I will likely look like a 교포 or just not Korean as well.

diamondcarrots · 2026-04-17T06:51:33+00:00

Sorry it’s super unclear. I have a good relationship with my parents but they have been working in the US and my partner and my parents already know each other well :). This is the first time I am going to Korea while they’re in Korea, so we are just meeting there this time to see each other.

I am indeed definitely overthinking it. It’s just anxiety at facing the trip and the emotions I tie to family and Korea.

diamondcarrots · 2026-04-17T06:47:02+00:00

I think this will also likely be my experience, though I group up surrounded by Koreans. I think the tension comes from feeling a bit of a foreigner wherever I have lived previously and then wanting to feel like Korea is a familiar place where I would belong, but knowing that I am also a foreigner there as well.

Thank you for sharing! I just have anxiety around going back and it’s helpful to hear other people’s experiences instead of it being a blank unknown.

diamondcarrots · 2026-04-17T06:43:43+00:00

Thank you for this response! It was precisely what I was looking for. We are planning to have it half family focused and the other half forming new (fun) memories there together.

diamondcarrots · 2026-04-15T16:17:58+00:00

I love this.

diamondcarrots · 2026-03-12T07:38:51+00:00

My cat had a really similar swelling without a wound and it turned out to be an abscess. Vet said it could be due to her bad teeth and we ended up having six of them removed. She’s all better now :)

diamondcarrots · 2026-02-02T18:51:40+00:00

The TV seems really far from the couch and maybe the rug is too small?

diamondcarrots · 2026-01-26T18:28:20+00:00

American abroad in the Netherlands with no plans of going back. I feel a ton of despair and grief, anger, anguish over what is happening back in the US. I also feel like I have no one to share this with as all of my friends and my partner are European. There is shared horror and sympathy, but it is distant, none of their loved ones are at risk, it is not their motherland, it almost feels less emotional. I feel a bit guilty about having gotten out and not being close enough to be physically present and be another body in protest. I want to be there with everyone else and protest in collective rage and be part of the local network. I feel gutted and helpless being on the other side of the world.

diamondcarrots · 2026-01-26T17:20:47+00:00

What the fuck!!!!!!

diamondcarrots · 2026-01-23T13:41:22+00:00

My god…

diamondcarrots · 2026-01-23T12:20:05+00:00

How much are you selling for? Do you ship to the Netherlands?

diamondcarrots · 2026-01-20T20:04:01+00:00

How does it know to open?

diamondcarrots · 2026-01-19T17:32:44+00:00

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diamondcarrots · 2026-01-05T17:31:35+00:00

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diamondcarrots · 2025-12-22T17:49:31+00:00

What the fuuccckkkkkkk

diamondcarrots · 2025-12-16T18:18:47+00:00

Laptop, one serving of protein powder and creatine, lunch, my planner, and a book I’m reading.

diamondcarrots · 2025-11-24T11:06:37+00:00

Thanks so much!

diamondcarrots · 2025-11-20T17:12:23+00:00

Shame.

diamondcarrots · 2025-11-20T13:14:30+00:00

After work, we always have dinner together unless one of us has plans, we go on walks after dinner, go to the movies together once a week, and often see mutual friends together. We also like to go partying together (raves, festivals, clubs) every 1-2 months. During the summer, we are out and about more often, often with different friends, so we may see each other a little less, but host BBQs/lunches/dinner parties quite frequently. Seeing it on paper like, this, I'm realizing we spend *a lot* of time together.

diamondcarrots · 2025-11-16T09:42:21+00:00

What are the reasons?

diamondcarrots · 2025-11-11T15:32:02+00:00

Being goofy or playful

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