• I moved from the US to Wales 14 years ago. • I didn't initially consider how difficult it would be to live so far away from my family. • I've found ways for my three kids to stay connected to family even though we are an ocean apart.

The summer between my third and fourth years of college at the University of Maryland, I took a haphazardly planned trip to Wales to stay with a family I knew who agreed to host me while I travelled around the UK.

During that summer, I met the man whom I would marry not even two years later.

Having not settled into a job in the US, I decided to be the one to make the transatlantic move, not fully aware of just how life-changing the decision would be. I suppose in your early 20s, you don't consider all the future implications of living away from your h

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