If it's about money and assets have a private investigator catch him cheating and hit him with the divorce papers or just file for divorce yourself, If i'm not mistaken you have to be separated for 18 months/2 years before the divorce can even be finalized depending on what state you live in.
If he's abusive find a battered womans shelter and a counselor will help you with a safe exit plan, don't try to leave on your own if he's a batterer, you will need some assistance.
Well abusive men go in cycles, they stop the abusive behavior only to start back up again, they have women on tender hooks walking on egg shells, I'm sure if you think about it you can most likely figure out the amount of time that goes by before he acts out again. You should be suspicious and you should be seeking some help to slowly get out of that situation with him, your not helping him by staying which is called enabling and if you stay your saying it's okay to hit me, verbally abuse me, emotionally abuse me, maybe your words say stop but if you stay around it your actions make it okay b/c if it wasn't okay you would leave, cut contact and if you have kids with him find a counselor that is expert in dealing with women that have been battered and abused, your feeling deeply attached, most women feel this way with there abusers, it's called stockholme syndrome (google it if you want a deeper description) you also may suffer from PTSD, all these things keep a woman psychologically strongly attached to her abuser.
a small snippet of SS....The person with Stockholm syndrome identifies with her captor and willingly submits to his demands; she is often grateful and loving towards him in response to a reprieve from torture brief periods of freedom from captivity, and minimally decent treatment.
Loving the hand that beats us.....We become conditioned or —brainwashed?? through emotional intensity. We come to feel that intensity itself is —important?? and even —profound?? when, in fact, it is just intensity. If someone makes us feel strongly emotional in some way or we become connected to them during a time of strong emotion, then that strong emotion may —glue?? an emotional connection in place between you and them. It really can be as simple as that.
We can all become, to some degree, attached to people who manipulate or tyrannize us in some way, making excuses to others for their behavior all the while becoming hooked on the intensity of the relationship.
The woman who continually dates —bastards??, or the man attracted to manipulative women, the addicted smoker in love with and held captive by his cigarettes — all show the symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome.
Try finding an online forum with other women that have similar situations, warning steer clear of men claiming to understand your situation and/or claiming to be abused, this isn't to find a date and creeps do lurk on these sites but for the most part you can google and find forums that help other women deal with the different stages of letting abusers go. You can also look for a battered womans shelter and they can provide you with a list of group meetings you can go to get a sponsor who will be there for you and help you through this process. I'm sure if you look through any yellow or white pages book or online you can find the assistance you need, another source for help is interviewing therapist that deal specifically with battered abused women, you can't go to just any kind of therapist but if you find the right one the process can be healing and help you find the self esteem and confidence to help yourself and protect yourself.
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