I was my dispersed mom that I never wanted to do so; Help the move to Qatar

“My mother, will you get to play my school?” I asked my daughter, her voice is small. I can say that she was ready to disappoint.

I looked at my laptop, where I asked the customer emails with instant responses, and I felt a knot in my stomach. “I will try, my love. I really will.”

We both know the meaning of “I will try.”

I grew up in one family of parents, I saw my mother struggling to balance work and the family, and I lost important moments in my childhood. I swore that I was wearing my daughter differently.

However, despite the marriage and founder of the Operations Agency called the executive partner who allows me to flexibility to work remotely, I was repeating the same pattern of my mother.

Something required for change. Surprisingly, I found something in Qatar.

I was surprised by the extent of our love to live in Qatar

I was born and brought up in the United States. My expatriate trip began in London in 2015, I continued Copenhagen in 2016, returned to London in 2020, and finally to Qatar in 2024.

We have moved as my husband received higher wage jobs. The truth is, I was not initially pleased with the move to Qatar.

I am concerned about disrupting my work, uprooting our established lives in London, and boycotting my daughters’ education.

Initially, our plan was temporary – four years in Qatar, at most, then returned to England before girls reached high school.

Now, just months after, these concerns have been resolved.

Excellent schools, quality of life, and deep transformations in our family dynamics make us reconsider everything.

Our financial situation improved after moving to Qatar

Each step learned something of value about different ways to live, but Qatar stands out to give us financial freedom and the precious family time that we could not achieve elsewhere.

My husband and I have good instructions and successful professions, and we are diligent schools, but we were unable to invest in our future the way we wanted, such as buying a house in the UK.

Our situation varies greatly in Qatar. My husband’s salary completely covers our family expenses, while income from my work goes directly to savings and investments for our future.

The financial breathing room made all the difference in our family dynamics

I will never forget the first school event for my daughter in Qatar. I arrived 15 minutes before my phone to get a seat in the front row of pictures. I studied my hand, then my face was surprised. “You don’t check your messages?”

I have grown up to be a physical present but mentally absent-not sticking while passing on electronic messages and receiving calls during their activities. She was surprised by my full presence.

Now, you expect me to put my phone away and pay attention to it. This little change has made a big difference in our daily life.

Our relationship has also flourished. We laugh more together, share more stories with me, and they are more willing to seek homework or talk about the things you worry.

Our confidence has grown simply stronger because it knows that I listen.

It has made the diameter of parenthood and motherhood much easier for us

He turned me to live here as a father. I am more patient and present, and my daughters flourish.

Everywhere we go to-restaurants, gardens and shopping centers-there is a compact understanding that children are the responsibility of society.

Smaller to me, once hesitantly joining the group activities, it is offered with confidence to new children in the garden. I have developed a remarkable independence, as I move in social situations easily.

My husband also has more time with children. For example, when our daughter was the first football championship – an hour by car during a working day – he simply told his president that he needed to leave at noon. “Of course,” was the response. No guilt or hidden expectations to compensate for time.

I also find myself working less hours without sacrificing the quality of my work or the quality of work. For example, I closed the laptop at 11 am on Tuesday on a spontaneous journey on the beach – something that I hadn’t done before without feeling guilty.

I also stopped feeling guilty when my children are not renewed. At home, you were worried if they were not in the chapters of enrichment or organized sport every day every afternoon. Now, I see the value to allow them to build forts in the living room or spend an hour in drawing.

Our family has grown near tangible roads. We eat meals together without devices, and we go on weekend adventures without work interruption, and we have talks that do not pay due to the next commitment.

Sonya Williams lived with her family in the United Kingdom, Denmark and Qatar. during Your expatriate lifeIt helps fine women to create a meaningful life outside by asking what they were told is “natural” and discovering what is really possible.