Hello

I couldn't help reply when I read what you have gone through. I am not a single mother or even divorced. But I am writing as a child of similar situiation. My Mother took me and my sister away from a Father who sounds similar to your ex.

I know she made the right decision now that I am an adult. When I was younger I thought it was the worst thing she could do, but now that I am old enough to understand and apprechiate the weight of the situiation. I know that making a fresh start was what we needed to make it. And I know that I would not be the person I am today if we had stayed with him or even around him.

And I think you need to consider what is best for your children, I believe that if you stay the only feelings they may have for their Father is resentment (just by the sounds of him). You need to consider first and formost what is best for your little girls. To be around a Father that finds it so easy to abandon his family and start again, and someone who found it so easy to give permission for his wife to move to the otherside of the world with his children. IF his girls were that important to him then he would have put up a fight, but as it was he was happy enough to let them and you go.

So in my opinion give your children that distance so that they can grow and be happy. Moving to the US and then having to move back to CH so quickly will only confuse and stress them. I know its hard for you, but do what is best for your girls. My Mom did and I know she made the right choice for us.