JulesAS78

I really hope people watch this video, if I had known this information before I emigrated I could of made a much more informed decision and I dare say things would be very different for me! When I moved to Australia with my husband I had no idea about the Hague convention, I was never happy to move away but I promised to 'give it a go' because he said it was a better life and a better place to bring up children and as is often the case in this situation I was promised that if I was unhappy and couldn't settle we would move back home. For me the problem came long before separation from my husband, I struggled to cope here with a young baby from quite early on and tried my hardest to settle, it soon became clear that my husband had no intention of ever returning back to the uk or letting my children leave, at which point I realised that I was trapped here and I started looking into the law and how unlikely it was that I would be allowed to return to my home country :-( I suffered with severed depression and anxiety problems and my husband offered no support and ignored the problem as there was no way he was going to budge no matter how bad things got for me! After 3 years here we separated and I am now a single mum of two on the other side of the world unable to return home to my family and friends, I cope better now and am trying to build myself a life here but if I could go back in time to the point where I was trying to make the decision of whether to try it, this is the information I would want to be given, I believe everyone should know this before they move and for those who will say I should of done my research properly you are right but the information wasn't readily available and that is why it is so good to get this out there so that those people doing their research can see the possible dangers of what they are considering doing