1 Best case scenario: This woman to get into counseling for her gambling/sex/alcohol/anger issues and for us to stay married, rebuild what we can and enjoy a normal, functional life.
2. Second Best case scenario: This woman to get into counseling for her gambling/sex/alcohol/anger issues and for us to divorce, for her to have the kids 50 percent of the time in a normal, sane environment.
It would be easy at this point for me to simply remove the kids and get a restraining order. The hard part comes later, when I'm expected to raise them all by my lonesome, with her sending a few hundred bucks per month (not really all that much, in the grand scheme of things) and me juggling homemaking, full-time grad school, full-time employment, probable supervised visits with mom and having absolutely no life at all for myself.
I need her to get to counseling. Her kids need her to get to counseling. DB techniques are my only hope to compel her there without involving courts and cops.
M:40 W:40 2 teenagers ILYBNILWY: 09 January 2010 soon to be walking away my situation