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The Limit does not exist
How life can actually go when you can’t cut-off an abusive ex-husband
My life didn’t get any easier after divorcing an abusive ex-husband. For as much as I hoped the domestic violence and abuse would stop, having a child with him has prolonged the abuse and punishment for exposing him for what he always is and likely will continue to be.
Attempts to co-parent with him readily give him opportunities to try and dictate who I am, how I live, what I have or don’t have.
Like clockwork, he goes out of his way to remind me that he wants and will try and thrive on as much power over me as he will always try and squeeze for himself.
Honestly? I had high hopes that with his recent third marriage, it would help him to be a little more happy and less combative (especially towards me). As with anything when it comes to hoping for the best and expecting the worst, the worst is very much what’s been happening with him and for him in his life.
He’s recently revealed of himself that he isn’t just miserable and more even that the cycle of dysfunction that he’s tried to deny of his life is something that continues to make a mess of him. And just like when we were married, he regularly tries to push it into my life in order to have me “fix” what he denies is a problem despite him continuing to have it be the life he…
