She Has Had It!: The Messy Truth About "Three 3 Year Itch"

And before we, uh, before we started recording today, um, I asked you if, if you had heard about this, is this a thing in Greece? Um, and let me just tell you very quickly what it is here in Portugal.

A lot of immigrants and expats make it to the three year mark.

And this is usually where you've either had enough and you're like, I'm done.

I can't do this anymore.

It's just too difficult.

There's too many challenges, too many inconveniences.

I want to go back to where I came from or maybe even find another new place to live.

Or you basically just fight through until you get to a point where you're like, OK, I guess I'm going to stay.

So, yeah, it's called the three year itch or I like to call it three and flee.

Is that a thing in Greece that you've heard of?

I have no idea.

I mean, I'm not connected with the immigrant expat communities here.

Like, I'm not embedded in those enough to give an opinion either way.

I was curious about it because as much as, you know, Jeremy and I had said when we heard about this that... we would hope and we're going to attempt to not be those people who are like, okay, three years, I think I'm done.

You know, where you get to this level of frustration where you're like, I just can't do it.

But here we are, you know, maybe just a couple of weeks ago, having this discussion of like, should we stay? Or maybe we go, do we go back? Do we find another option? What do we do? You know, and I, and I was like, as I was having this conversation with him, I couldn't help myself, but think, oh, man, here we are.

We're the people that we didn't want to be.

We're like, oh, yeah, maybe there is something better.

Or maybe there's just something that's less stressful or just more, I guess, convenient.

And now, thankfully, we've gotten to a point where we're not moving.

In fact, I wrote about this in my sub stack just recently too.

It's the same topic, the three-year itch.

And I had several comments of people just like, you had me scared to death that you guys were going to leave.

Like it wasn't until like later in the piece where I finally said, we are not going.

We're not leaving.