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.
Abusive Step-Father 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!