Your inability to stay on topic and repeated need to call the mom here sexually degrading names is telling. Men's anger towards women knows no bounds. I'm sorry you can't see how children should be kept out of this. "But she started it!!" sounds as immature from you as it does from my 7 yo. |
Not to say she was right, but you sure are an a$$hole. |
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I'm the guy whose wife called 911.
She didn't make partner. I got full custody and it took her two years to get unsupervised visits after that. Not surprisingly, she isn't in her kid's life. She's moved to Richmond and the kids and I are doing very well. Much better than before I took her for palimony and I got the house and the condo we owned first. To the poster that tried to malign time spent watching movies with their kids. Wow, just wow. You're especially gross. And the cherry on top for all you sad women out there: My new wife is 14 tears younger, way, way hotter and is actually a decent person. My kids like her more than they like their birth mother. Merry Christmas! |
| That's the thing. DCUM treats these situations like a zero sum game. Obviously infidelity is wrong. Responding by going on strike for soccer practice and cooking the children's dinner is also wrong. |
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OP, if you do not have kids, stop debating calling the police or not, especially if you said you do not want to press charges. This relationship is a stinker and it’s over. Leave. You’re not going to fix it. You married the wrong person.
If you have kids, prepare your exit plan - make sure you have money you can access that she cannot so you have a place to stay when you leave. |
I hear your sincerity but so much is wrong with this. It's not his responsibility to run carpool or cook all meals. It's their responsibility. It is absolutely her responsibility to keep other men's d*cks from finding their way into any of her orifices. Trying to apportion fault between the two as equal is just a bad look. The exwife is 100% at fault for everything. |
Is it heteronormative or probabilistic? |
Troll. It’s not called palimony if you were married. It’s alimony whether you are the DH or DW. |
| So OP never came back to say if she is a woman? I strongly suspect she is in a lesbian relationship. We had many posts from a woman in a lesbian marriage here, and each post was showing some escalation of issues. OP was constantly unhappy, her spouse was ignoring her, and that OP always came out as extremely needy, and picking on every single thing. Still does not make OP not a victim. If this is that same OP, here is my advice for you. Your marriage is not working, you hate her parents, you hate the lack of intimacy and you need to get out of this relationship. If you are not her, same advice goes. |
Physical abuse is rampant and under reported in the lesbian community. It's an odd factoid I learned during a recent work training session. Like, significantly less than in any other relationship configuration. |
| I don’t have time to read the thread, but call a lawyer in your state. None of us will give you better advice than your own lawyer. Stay safe. |
I think it is underreported for the same reason that it is underreported in the AA and undocumented Latinx communities. People feel already judged and under scrutiny. They do not want to further invite discrimination or unrelated police actions. |
There is nothing physical about men and women that makes a man in less danger from an intimate partner if things get physical. There are a million ways that don't require a gun for a weaker person to severely injure a stronger one, especially when they live together. What makes it less dangerous is simply the assumption that women are less violent than men and won't take it as far. Which may be true but it's not about smaller and weaker. |
I am sincere about this. My Dad had an affair with his editor and left my mom when I was 12. I spent a few years watching my mom lay on the couch and pop Xanax while my dad honeymooned in Europe with this lady. Did I mention I was the editor's babysitter so her toddler became my stepbrother. It was a mess. I was so angry with my Dad that I was a holy terror for years. I also knew how sad and angry my mom was, but she never let us in on any of that. Kept her head high, took care of us, dutifully put us on the plane to see my dad when it was his time to have us (because he also moved to be with this lady. Yes, it was a mess). We're 25 years out from it all now. My mom is happily remarried. My dad is no longer with the editor. My relationship with my Dad has been repaired over the years and I'm grateful he's in my life. I give my mom huge credit for making that happen. So I speak from the kid's perspective. When a spouse does the cowardly thing and has an affair, it's awful. I have enormous empathy for the wounded spouse. But as a now healthy adult I'm the product of being kept out of the middle. Believe me, I know who f*cked up in my parent's situation. But it was never my battle to fight, and I'm happy I never had to. I wanted both of my parents and thankfully I got to keep them both. It's a gift I hope all kids are given. As a final note I'll say that very rarely is it anyone's 100% fault. My dad dealt his marriage to my mom the death blow but she contributed her fair share. As far as whose responsibility the kids are, it's a responsibility, period. It's not owned or shared. It just is. Sometimes one person is the adult and picks it up; rarely do they regret it, and I promise you the kids appreciate it. - One person's perspective |
Yeah. It sure is a convenient outcome. But, whatever. |