Emotional Abuse I never realised I was In danger until she asked if I was OK. When the twins started senior school, I studied for a degree in something he 'approved' of. After all, he was paying the fees and wasn't going to waste a penny on me learning something worthless.
Burn out He cared even less after we divorced. It took another two years for me to say out loud to myself 'I want a divorce' and to actually call a lawyer. I threatened divorce all the time, assuring him that one day he would have to be a parent that turns up.
Divorce & Finances He is not the man I married. No longer telling her she hadn't achieved anything in her life, he started to assure her she was a crap mother. He began to undermine every single decision she made.
Childhood Abuse Featured Divorce shattered my youth. The psychologist had shared my private sessions with Mum, who weaponised my private struggles to paint Dad as an abuser!
