Ugh... not good Seminole. Is it possible to sit down and have a conversation with your W about your daughter? Grades slipping, skipping classes and engaged? Recipe for disaster. It's time to intervene a bit more. I suspect that her complaint about you being mean to the kids was more that you disciplined the kids. We all need discipline to thrive. Perhaps you can help your W come up with a plan that might work better in supporting your daughter's education?
Oh and will she regret quitting the marriage? Yeah, probably. A lot of them do. My parents have been divorced 35 years... I talk to my dad a lot about my own situation these days. There isn't a single conversation in the last 4 months that I've had with my dad where he hasn't mentioned that he regrets divorcing my mom. But we have more tools now than our parents did. We can do better.
