Reply to Steph

Submitted by Deb (United States), Dec 2, 2006 at 12:39

Hi Steph,

I too tried to go to a battered womens shelter but if you are not hit and physically injured, they will not take you. If he is leaving that might be a good thing. My husband's brother left his wife after five kids and twenty years of marriage and went back to Lebanon and married another woman he just laid eyes on. but they are lucky in that they have money. I have to work a job I hate because my husband gave everything to secure his brother. Unfortunately I cannot leave him because I don't make enough to support myself and daughter. Here, rents are upwards of 1200 a month.

You mentioned you had some money from your mother. Was that an inheritance? Can it tide you over for awhile? Your husband sounds horrible and maybe anything would be better than this.

My husband just doesn't talk to me, except when he wants to criticize something. I think in five years when my daughter is grown we will go our separate ways. That is the plan for now. The sad part is I am almost 50 (!) Trust me, it does not get better.

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