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How do single parents do it? by Chigurh

Long time lurker just needed to get some stuff outta my brain and didn’t know where to go. My wife hasn’t been herself for awhile now. We’ve been married almost 4 years and have an amazing 2 year old little girl and an older almost 14 year old daughter from one of my wife’s previous relationships. Everything seemed great, then my wife suffered a miscarriage before ultimately getting pregnant soon after with our younger daughter. Then she started liking about having jobs and taking money from my accounts without my knowledge and taking out loans in my name. I’m never going to be wealthy because I’m a teacher but I picked up 3 extra jobs because I convinced myself that she was just bad with money or suffering from depression from the earlier miscarriage. Lately things have been much worse, she either is manic or sleeps all day. She flies off the handle with a terrible temper at the smallest thing. Last Friday night after she went to bed I searched her purse and found a meth pipe. I confronted her with her parents the next day but she refused to go to a drug treatment center and is instead doing an outpatient program for depression. That was the final straw I got an attorney and started the paperwork for a divorce. She took both our girls to her parents house so I had to file an order of protection to get my biological daughter back. Her parents have turned against me. Thank god the judge granted it and she has been with me the last for the last couple days. It has been a whirlwind of activity in changing banks, utilities, and filling out more paperwork than I could imagine, but knowing my little girl is safe makes it all worth it. All I know is this is the most exhausted I’ve ever been and am just hoping at some point it slows down and life gets easier. I really don’t know how some of you other single parents to do. I just needed somewhere to vent as even though I know addiction can happen anywhere and to anyone I never thought in my nice little suburban life I would experience this. Sorry for the long post.