Ashley provided some good advice there and it sounds like the relationship has been deteriorating for a while. Children are pretty adaptable to new environments, they have to considering how much growth they go through everyday. So even though it may cause some initial distress, it will work out in the long run. On the other hand, if you stay in an unhappy relationship where your partner try to control your every move, that’s a bad message that gets reinforced everyday and may impact on how they handle romantic relationship in the future.

Then of course there is your own happiness to consider. Things will be tough both emotionally and financially to start off with so you have to ask yourself whether you are someone who is happy to live in a gilded cage or one who takes her chances to fly into the wilds? Once you have identified who you want the be, the rest are just barriers you have to knock over to reach your destination.

Best wishes.