Hiding in Plain Sight: When Buying Your Ideal Life Becomes a Price Too High to Pay‪.‬

From the outside, Sofia and Andre appeared to have the perfect life with their acre+ of lush lawn and 5,000 square-foot home with a matching playhouse in the backyard. Both are college educated and have high paying careers. They have three healthy children. They live in a Money Magazine rated #1 Best Small Town. This was the life Sofia always dreamed of. She had struggled her whole life to get to this place that she painfully longed for as a child. To let people into her private world, her family secrets would be more painful than living a double life. If she was courageous enough to hide in plain sight, no one would suspect her. Her main mission was to get a million miles away from where she came from. It seemed to work for years until the price of her ideal life became a price too high to pay. The perfect storm from her past threatened to make it all come crashing down. She found herself feeling like an impostor, overburdened with debt, and deep in emotional bondages.