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You are living in an abusive relationship and your children are learning how to be abusive by watching the interactions between you and their father.
White Shark is spot-on. Get out, regardless of money. Money will not ever buy this man a conscience, nor will it ever buy you and your children safety. There are agencies and organizations that will help you and your children to get on your feet.
Additionally, avoid ALL relationships for a couple of years after you've been legally divorced. Get involved in some counseling therapy to learn how to make strong choices for yourself and your children.
I lost everything that I owned and ended up homeless, very, very sick, and without any means of income when I ended my second marriage. I learned that the ex spouse had raided my private investments and that I would never recover a dime from him. I have lived in poverty ever since. BUT..........I am not afraid, I don't have to beg anyone else for my needs to be met, and I am well on my healing path after intensive therapy and the hard work to get there. You (and, anyone else) can do this, too. Don't allow money and / or security to be the reason to remain in an abusive environment. NOTHING is worth that.......your children will either develop into perfect victims, themselves, or abusers like their father. If they see that you make wise decisions and are willing to sacrifice material things in order to preserve your health and theirs, it will make an impact upon them - that women aren't objects to be used or abused.
Then......there's the very distinct possibility that he will eventually be arrested and charged with some type of sex crime. So, get rid of him, now, before he takes you and your children down the toilette with him.
Brightest blessings to you.
Ham-cereal, I'm so sorry to read about your situation, and I'm sorrier that there are 3 children involved.
Borderline ....... has she been diagnosed as borderline, or does she exhibit the symptoms? There are specific dangers with regard to borderlines depending upon which cluster they fall into. Some will threaten suicide while others will attempt suicide as a provocation. Physical violence is not uncommon, regardless of gender.
If you are done with this marriage, I would strongly encourage you to become involved in individual / private counseling. A lot happens to a person when they've lived in a traumatic situation, and men tend to "cope" with this trauma quite differently from women.
THEN, I would hire the best attorney that I could find. Borderlines do not like to lose, and they will manipulate Family Courts for their own benefit and drama/trauma entertainment. They will also use children as tools or weapons. This is particularly difficult when the mother is a serious problem. BUT, if you begin counseling therapy with a trauma specialist, and continue going to sessions, etc., this will be of benefit not only in the divorce, but also for you, personally, in the long run so that you don't choose another disordered person as a partner.
I also tried to "fix" a very dysfunctional and abusive union because I was SO ashamed for having chosen a very, very bad partner. Life is entierly too short to spend it walking on egg shells and allowing children to be dreadfully traumatized by a wacko parent.
Don't threaten your wife with divorce. Do not tell her that you've spoken to an attorney. Don't give her ANY indication that you're going to file for divorce. Just find a calm spot in your day, quiet your mind as much as you can, and keep moving through your days until your attorney advises you to either move out or kick her out. DOCUMENT everything that she says or does using a written (NOT technological) log using dates, times, exact quotes, actions, and YOUR actions/responses, even if they don't make you look like a saint.
Particularly where the children are concerned, tell them nothing, as well.
Best wishes to you on this challenging journey. You will make it out of this and hopefully take your children with you.
re: the thread question. How do we create a society that has more compassion, when we live in capitalism?
Whether it's our body or our society, uncontrolled parasitic activity contributes to a systems imbalance, and if unchecked, it's ultimate downfall. In our bodies, bacterial infection, virus and fungi affects. In a society, one or more peoples gaining and gaming for self serving advantage, control of one or more of the physical living necessities, land, food, water, air or fuel.(Whether by self agrandizing destructive dictatorship or by monopolic monetary driven privatization of these natural life structures). Unlike the natural beneficial symbiotic parasites like beneficial intestinal flora in our bodies, and especially contrary to the life transforming gifts such as, infants, children, the elderly, the disabled, gifts designed to teach us, correct us and highten living experience. The strictly egoic, self serving aberations rob and destroy the intended structural balance of both these naturally designed systems.
The dilemma of the general and particular economic form mentioned (capitalism and predatory capitalism), is that, in it's present manifestation, it has been modified beyond its philosophic and mechanisticly neutral, well intended viability, by acculturated avaristic tendencies. And it has incorporated the feudal principles of controlling the basic living necessities of the general population: land, shelter, food, fuel and water, such that the general population is required to acquiesce and participate with those particular control aspects and mechanisms, unless they design for their person some other routing mechanism for the factors needed to most easily live at the same semblance of living as the the general population.
In disassociating the feudal elements from this or any economic system, the negative arrangement outcome is modified to a large degree, thus debilitating the concept that a particular economic or governmental system is "the" basic problem.
Thus these economic arrangment attempts at mimicking the natural environment structures, are to a degree neutral, helpful or degrading to life, not by their basic orientations, but by how they are specifically practiced. With this discernment the challenge of fixing societal negatives is clairified, and in the complexity of that and in the promoting of such fixes, the evan larger systems compassion elements can become activated, and the advantgage of that more complete view becomes more apparent.
one take on the wage story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exdR6lhN4bk
course for every attempt to break the ineguity of the situation, the gamers work diligently to counter that attempt .
W re to thoughts related to this cross posted post at CZ consciousness forum:
To me the quandary is not so much societal as it is personal and not so much personal as it is elemental.
What I see is action's outcomes in play and the ultimate outcome in play from the inception:
While compassion is the root of freedom and wisdom, it is not controlled, limited or exasperated by any control system, natural or otherwise. Empathetic relation is found to be unavoidable when we stop fueling our own self oriented, self protecting delusion of self importance, and it is completed when we find the intersection of empathy and compassion and we transcend the lesser emotive qualities produced(infantile oriented pain avoidance). Where the delima of pain and suffering are resolved by the revealing of the synchronous and harmonic relationship of all things.
Any control impressed on a society or the personality is an imposition upon the (natural) order of things as an attempt to correct supposed deficiencies perceived in the presently accuating program, and any of these imposed ideations, governmental, economic, spiritual or interpersonal, will only blend well to the degree they accurately mimic the larger natural processing order of things.(The law of the jungle being a balanced synopsis of cosmic law, where hierarchal and symbiotic balanced relation healthily exists, and also where every'thing' is eventually equalized in being destructured, elementalized, eaten. Such that when living harmoniously in such a sub system, one's singular importance is muted and lived as basic beingness, beyond space and time constraints, thus freed, by that more accurate relation to actuality).
The ultimate evolving mechanism element, compassion (pain being an important but a lesser activation messaging code, eventually finding evolved purport in empathy), required for a societies or an entities growth into penultimate awareness, isn't based on the particulars of the larger controlling belief system(s) the person or society is living conjointly with(under). Rather it is the discovery by that growing awareness, that the bound separated personality, is also part of a material world structure endemicly designed to be synergistic at an interactive level more profuse and profound than the, still as yet separate immature considerer understands, and that that mechanistic discovery eventually impels the fruition of a natural non separate empathetic compassion, maintained not by mandated organization, societal or personal, but rather effortlessly by the realization and acquiescence to the grand balancing interaction and the insperable decisive complementary unity of all things.
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