I understand that I was NOT acting mature.
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It feels like you are harsh with me, maybe I deserve that I don't know. If you knew what I went through with this man, you wold understand.
Do you think most of come out of our marriages unscathed?
I was unhappy for the whole 10 years of my marriage. Verbal, physical, psychological abuse constantly.
I don't think anyone of of left our marriages because things were great
The physical abuse came when I "challenged" him too much. On our second date, he looked across me at the restaurant table and said, "Look at your f*cking stomach! Don't eat
those potatoes. Order some fruit". I was and am not overweight by any stretch of the imagination. I weigh 125 and my weight has fluctuated by only 5 pounds either way all my life.
2nd date and yet you married him and had children with him, so you created this bed that you had to lie on...
In 2004, at 6:00 am in the morning, I caught him taking his things out of our apartment., We were supposed to get a home for our kids to be raised in. Had agreed on it for years. The morning he left, he received his first commission check for $15,000 net money. By 9:00am that morning, he had opened up a new bank account-without my name on it- and arranged to move in with a roommate. When he came back that night to visit the kids and tell them he was moving out, I told him since he was leaving us and was making the big money now, I needed a 20% down payment to get us a house and for him to sign for it. He glared at me, and stood in our kitchen and called me a "greedy b*tch" in front of our two boys while I stood there and cried.
welcome to divorce.. why do you need a new house for the kids right away? move into an appartment.. seems like you wanted the 20% of the $15K more than anything
We never could save for anything, because he was always leaving and getting apartments and blowing
our money. I raised his kids. Then when he hit it big and there was a chance for us to get a house, he took the money and left. I was smart enough to go back to school during this time and get my degrees.
Good for you, so now you are employable, you raised the kids that the "two of you" created.. what is the point of this whine?
I don't understand why you are defending him. If he got cut off from disability that means he is able to work. Or maybe not. I guess you think I shouldn't get any more payments from him when he sees his kids 2 days total out of a month.
who is defending who, we dont know you or the x from Adam? you are only getting facts here based on what you tell us.
whatever the case, I appreciate your advice because I need to be prepared when I go to court. I guess because I barely hit him, that is more important than the fact he almost killed me-by purposely smothering me. If I was
dead would you feel different? Would you still feel I deserved it?