Excellent point, Akhtene. I didn't realise that Elrohir and Elladan also stayed behind. Maybe the children of Elrond were more tied up in the fate of Middle-Earth, and came to love it. Elladan and Elrohir by all accounts spent a lot of time in the wilderness, roaming around being heroes and such, and maybe they just really liked it there. And Arwen had her love for Aragorn to keep her in Middle-Earth - for her the Undying Lands was only a promise, and not yet real since she had never been there.
Lothlorien faded after the One Ring perished, so Galadriel had little reason to stay. She and Elrond must have had many friends in the Undying Lands as well, unlike the younger Elves. Maybe the sea-longing hadn't hit the children of Elrond, either.
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