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[quote=Anonymous]My father did this. He left my mom the second I went to college and I struggled to reconcile things until I realized that my mother was bonkers and I was lucky that he stuck around to mitigate her crazy. I say this as someone who didn't really understand the sacrifice until I had my own kids.

He's happy now. They divorced at 51 and he has a partner, a lovely woman, who is just fantastic. My mother spun into a deep depression, claimed to have been blindsided and basically had a breakdown. I even took a semester off to care for her. I realize now, as an adult, how nuts that was. I would never do that to my children but my mother took being a victim as her lot in life. I actually cut myself off from her (my brother did as well). It took nearly losing her adult children for her to finally grow up and deal with her own issues. She did finally and is in a good place. She moved to New Mexico and is basically your crunchy grandma.

So, it works out. But you have to decide what's it worth and what you want after, I guess.[/quote]

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