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American mothers are conditioned to feel guilty for every choice they make, but especially for choosing their children's safety over extended family's comfort. The expectation that you'll sacrifice your kids' wellbeing to maintain proximity to relatives who could visit but choose not to, to preserve relationships with people who won't consider your fear legitimate, to perform patriotism about country actively failing to protect children - that's manipulation disguised as family obligation. Guilt is social control mechanism. It keeps you compliant with expectations that don't serve you. It keeps you stuck in situations harming your family because leaving would make other people uncomfortable. But your job as parent isn't making extended family comfortable with your choices. Your job is protecting your children. And when those two conflict, your children win. Every time. The people trying to make you feel guilty for relocating your family aren't offering to solve problems that drove you to leave. They're not campaigning for gun control, universal healthcare, affordable childcare, living wages, safe schools. They're just insisting you should stay and suffer alongside them while pretending it's fine. That's not love. That's crabs in bucket mentality. If I can't get out, you shouldn't either. If I'm stuck here raising kids in fear, you should be too. Your escape reminds me I'm choosing to stay, and that's uncomfortable, so you should come back and make me feel better about my choice. Hard pass. Your kids practicing active shooter drills aren't character-building experience preparing them for resilient adulthood. They're trauma you have power to prevent by changing their location. Missing American holidays and milestones with extended family isn't tragedy. Attending funerals of children killed at school is tragedy. One of those is preventable by relocating. Other is consequence of staying. The trade-off isn't even close. Baseline safety versus holiday gatherings. Childhood without constant fear versus proximity to grandparents who could visit but don't. Education in multiple languages and cultures versus education interrupted by lockdown drills. Those aren't equivalent sacrifices. Those aren't difficult choices. Those are obvious choices that American family dynamics have gaslit you into questioning. Watch video for what you refuse to feel guilty about when you prioritize your kids over everyone else's comfort. What are you supposed to feel guilty about that you refuse to feel guilty about? ๐Ÿ†˜๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

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Here are five things I refuse to feel guilty about as a mom who moved her kids abroad five years ago. Number one, leaving my parents and family behind. Their adults, they can make their own choice, FaceTime exists, Plains exist, they can come visit if they want, but I am not going to feel guilty that they made their choice when I needed to make a choice that was right for my kids. Number two, taking my kids away from American friends and family. I hate to break it to you, but their old classmates are still doing active shooter drills in the United States because there is a legitimate risk that there could be a gunman at school. So every missed event and holiday that we are not spending over there is absolutely for their safety and I'm not going to feel bad about that. Number three is that the trade-off is worth every single missed milestone. I love my family and friends back home. I miss my nieces with all of my heart, but living abroad was what was necessary for my family and they are different people because of it. They speak multiple languages, they have a international perspective and all of that was worth anything that we happen to miss because we've moved abroad. Number four is I'm not going to feel guilty about prioritizing my nuclear family over my extended family because I chose to have a family. So my number one job is to protect them, not explain myself and make other people in the extended family feel good about what I'm doing to protect my kids. And number five is I do not pretend that America is great when people ask. I don't placate people and act like, oh yeah, we miss home. No. America is a shit storm and I don't mess around about that. I make my feelings very widely known and I'm not going to feel bad about that. Leaving the United States is a choice my family made five years ago. And if you think it might be the great choice for your family, I can help with that. I work with families in America to help create exit plans so that you can understand where you allowed to go in this world. I work with 217 different visa options that you might qualify for and I will match you to the visas I think that would work best for you so that you can get out of the United States and stop feeling all the mom guilt that you have for keeping your kids in the dangers of the United States.

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