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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I grew up in a home like this. It was awful- full of stress and fear. One parent flying off the handle and the other one walking out for the day or the weekend to get away from it. Guess who got the rest of the blazing wildfire tantrum? My sibling and I- because we were the only ones left in the house. it escalated in frequency and got physical at the end for everyone. The only way out was for one parent to divorce and take us with them via full custody. My sibling and I got two things from this experience: anxiety for decades, and walking away/writing people off at first sign of disappointment or something off.  Please don’t stay and have your DC live this way. [/quote]

The thing that keeps me from leaving my DH is that it's my understanding he'd get 50/50 custody... which would mean my kids would be with him half the time totally on their own, without any protection from me.  Although staying is not a good option either, leaving them alone with him 50% of the time seems like an unthinkable scenario.  I can't do that to them.  There have been other threads about divorcing a mentally unstable spouse and the consensus is to stay until the kids are in college so they aren't alone with the spouse.  Any thoughts?[/quote]

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