Le Famille Resistance

I've been dealing with some formidable resistance back home. It makes sense to me that my fiance is mad I want to leave, and that this life decision jeapordizes our future plans in a big way. Truthfully, the jeapordization must have happened long before the decision to travel and teach abroad was made or I would not have moved in such a direction to begin with...regardless, it is painstakingly clear that this is not his future. His focus is on acquiring a home and having children. Settling into a nice life of stability, essentially, which leads me to ask, does the fact that I am choosing to travel and teach abroad mean that I am running from stability? Is this a subconscious tactic to relive my tulmultuous youth? Am I concerned I am just not able to make a life for myself in the US and therefore must escape to various places, a life without history or traction.

On the familial front, things do not look much better. Bombarded by negative opinion and solicited advice, I am also contending with many preconcieved notions about traveling abroad, about the people that choose to do so, and what it reflects about a person's life. My father thinks that i-to-i is a website gimmick set up to trap young, restless individuals who feel underpaid and undercultured. The whole establishment of the certificates and forums are an intricately laid plan to market the world to unsettled individuals. Vagabonds and Nomads, are the precise terms used. I don't know what kind of cutlural and demographical following this site provokes the interest of, but it is at the point where I am relying on perserverence alone to continue this process. Although I am sure a statistical backing would not squelch my father's concerns, it would be helpful if people of various backgrounds and statures could attest to their own reasons for travel, perhaps those not affiliated with i-to-i, that would work to reinforce my intentions for working abroad(because they are clearly becoming muddled) and simply share their own setbacks and difficult family dynamics around the topic of their departure.