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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes escape is all you can do, so ignore the harpies, OP.

I'd suggest your brother talks to a divorce lawyer. Then discuss his plans with his wife. She deserves a chance to say yay or nay as far as the family move. But maybe he just wants to leave, then he should say so. After talking to a freaking lawyer![/quote]

Harpies?  Jesus, if leaving the country with less than a week's notice is "all you can do," then you are a seriously screwed up person.  If OP's brother wants to leave his family, no one can stop him, but the method he's proposing is so unnecessarily cruel to his kids that I question his fundamental decency as a human being.  [/quote]

It's possible. It's also possible he's married to a seriously screwed up person. What does it matter in what manner a spouse leaves? The family is broken. How is it consolation to the children that he's in an apartment across town instead of another country? Please.[/quote]

NP. Um, what? They can still see him regularly in an apartment across town vs overseas. [/quote]

Overseas is not on Mars. You don't even know where he wants to go.[/quote]

Even if it is Toronto (which is not over a sea) it is too far to see your kids on the day to day. And even if you were leaving and were staying across town, announcing one day that you are done and fleeing the house is still traumatic to your kids who should get the respect of brother and his DW making a decision to separate and then communicating that to the kids as a unit.

I think OP is the brother and is responding in his own defense. [/quote]

OMG, what if he's offered a decent job in Ohio and has to take it partly in order to support his children? He won't be overseas, but he won't see the kids every day. How many divorced parents you know live on the same street, PP? Grow up, FFS.

You should not think as much. It obviously hurts.[/quote]

Growing up on the same street is not the same as being in another state? My parents are divorced and my dad did live in another state. He did not call and give me a heads up on the way to the airport as his means of informing me. I feel like you are a troll so I don't want to give you the time of day but parental abandonment has long term proven studies that show it is traumatic and effects kids for the rest of their lives. If you are a parent who did that, you permanently damaged your children. There is no escaping that reality. [/quote]

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