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The ambiguity experienced by changing cultural context will in most individuals be resolved by discreditting certain positive and negative aspects of an experience. For example minimising the hardship experienced in the us and amplifying what he does not like about Germany. In turn your ambiguity towards life I the us has led you to discount positiv aspects and emphasise the negative ones. Essentially you are both struggeling with ambiguity amplification and negative acculturation experiences unfortunately it seems that your processes are conrtadictionary.
Strategies to lower ambiguity experience in Germany might be a way forward if not too late. Those are language acquisition success experiences close local friends. Unfortunately public welfare does not count in this respect
We do have close local friends, even American friends. My husband likes Germany and says he wants to live here ultimately but he needs to go back for a gew years. Why, I don't understand.
I did have friends in the US, hobbies, my job. So that wasn't the problem.
He was supposed to start a job in Germany this fall. As a foreigner he has to do language classes first and can only work in a real job once he is done with those. That might explain the added welfare.