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I Have Trust Issues

Our daughter turned 3 months a few days ago. Last week my Latina wife told me she would like to return to her country "for a while". Her mood was casual when she said this, but her intention was much less so. I know my wife is homesick and I know she yearns for the support she'd get living among her family. When you have 10 siblings, you still will get a lot of support, even when 2 are mentally incompetent and several others live far away from where she would.
I'd have a hard time allowing my wife to take our daughter away for a period amounting to months. I also wouldn't like having her in what could be the most dangerous country in the western hemisphere w/out me.
But what really bothers me is the thought that her homesickness would overcome her, and she'd decide that she/they would be happier staying in the only country she knew for every moment of her first 40 years of life. This would, of course, require her to break an oath that I would have her make before leaving.
So far she's never shown her integrity to be anything less than perfect, and I've long been comfortable w/the idea that it is perfect. But her homesickness would put a greater strain on her than she's known in recent history. Furthermore, with all the perfidy I've seen in people who come into my life, I can't help but picture seeing myself in front of a lawyer sometime in the future telling me "sorry, bub, but you allowed your daughter to leave the country--you can't make her return." I really hope my wife let's go of the idea.
aaa28
thats a tough situation....can you tell her we'll go for a two-week trip and i'm coming with you? If she insists on a long trip without you tell her i can not bear to miss my daughter for that long. She'll grow out of her infancy without me being there
That is usually what I do. This came up under special circumstances: I'm looking at returning to work, we live in a rural bedroom community, and she doesn't have a driver's license. She's expecting to find the isolation overwhelming. I told her to go back to trying to get her license, which seems to have motivated her. Hopefully that will placate her for now
kbby22
I wouldn't be comfortable with that. It's your daughter, too. You should have a say in this too.
4BlackForest
why not take a vacation with her then go back home with her.
Dinero. We don't have an awful lot of it right now and even w/me there, it's a very dangerous country
GypsyMiss
Bring her family to her!
It took my government 2 years to just let her into the country. Her family isn't going tobogganing any time soon.

 
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