Nobody tells you that leaving America also means grieving the future you thought you'd have there. The neighborhood where your kids would grow up. The friends you'd grow old with. The version of yourself you were building toward. Even if that future was never actually safe or sustainable, it was still yours. And losing it hurts. I didn't just leave a country. I left the life I'd been planning for 30 years. The career trajectory. The retirement account. The American dream I'd been sold since childhood. And even though I knew logically that dream was broken, emotionally I still had to mourn it. The Portuguese call this saudade. It's the grief of loving something you can't have. The longing for a version of life that's gone or was never real to begin with. Here's what nobody prepared me for. You don't stop feeling saudade just because you made the right choice. You can know you're safer in Portugal and still miss the idea of the life you left behind. You can love your new reality and still ache for the old possibility. That's not weakness. That's not regret. That's just the cost of choosing yourself when the world you grew up in didn't choose you back. Grief and growth can coexist. Let them. Link in bio when you're ready to build what's actually possible instead of mourning what never was. ๐๐บ๐ธ
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Listen, I don't want you to think that I don't understand that you are longing for a time in your life or in American history when things were simpler and things were optimistic and hopeful and supposedly better. And I get that there is a lot of people who are just still there holding out hope, but I want you to be realistic that this is your life and this is the one shot you have in order to be happy. So if you are there trying to remember that time and somehow call it back into existence, I want you to remember that that time is in the past. Just remember change is constant. Progress is not and what's happening right now in the United States is not progress. It's not moving forward in a positive way that someone will look back on this time in the future and long for this time. It's a chaotic mess right now and there's a Portuguese word that I want to tell you that encapsulates this beautifully. It's called sour data and it is literally the longing for something that is gone or out of reach. And that is what you are trying to cling to the out of reach time in America or time in your life that is not coming back. You will never be able to recreate that period in your life that you felt was so magical for your own kids because it's not there. And what I hope I can inspire Americans to do is to take back your power and make the decision to go find that somewhere else. Find the thing that you're trying to find in America but find it somewhere where you can be safe and your kids can be safe. I'm Veronica and I teach Americans how to leave the United States. If you're feeling like your mind is stuck in the past and wanting to create a life that you just can't figure out how to create while you're still there in the United States, that's what I specialize in. I help match your realities with the visa programs around the world that will take you and I can help do that through my 2026 Global Life Accelerator. That group coaching program will teach you step by step how to leave the country, where you should go, how to earn income, what you should do with your stuff, how to set up your new life abroad, everything that you need to know to go from A to Z and leave the United States in 2026. Stop trying to recreate the past and work on making your future better than it is now.
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