‘Thanks to family and friends’.
Whether that was the intention or not, it is certainly the result. It must have been obvious that their father was never going to agree to their removal to the US so there would therefore be protracted litigation and the children would stay in the UK until that was resolved. That can take years. In that period, because she is living in another country, their mother is becoming less involved in their every day life (facetime cannot take the place of having a teenager and their friends interacting in your house and where you have the opportunity to getvro know their parents etc) plus the children are more and more committed to the UK education system as they get older. So it becomes less likely that a judge will agree to their relocation.At this point do we just acknowledge she’s left her kids behind to start a new life?
Why would you leave your children with an abusive person and leave the country? That’s not rationale or in the children’s best interests. So the concern would be that, if the children were relocated, they would be living with someone (at a time they needed a huge amount of support) who may still (for whatever good or unfortunate reasons) not make good decisions for them. It’s really hard leaving an abusive relationship. But it can be done whilst still living in the same countryDidn’t she say he was abusive though?
I‘ve got a friend in a similar situation. She’s gone back to the US to leaving her children here in the midst of a custody dispute.
People are judging her heavily, but her ex ground her down with coercive control and emotional abuse when they were together and for worse when they split. He ground her down so much that she said it was go home or she thought she would harm herself.
so I’m just wondering if something similar may have gone down.
Oh I know we don’t know - I was just speculating as she alluded to him being abusive in the past.Why would you leave your children with an abusive person and leave the country? That’s not rationale or in the children’s best interests. So the concern would be that, if the children were relocated, they would be living with someone (at a time they needed a huge amount of support) who may still (for whatever good or unfortunate reasons) not make good decisions for them. It’s really hard leaving an abusive relationship. But it can be done whilst still living in the same country
I do think we should make clear that we have no idea at all if the husband is or was abusive
I don’t think those two things (if either/both are true) are mutually exclusive.I thought she was the one that had an affair? Pretty disingenuous to then frame him as abusive…