Matt, your #1 job right now is to proactively protect your daughter and yourself.
W has the pedal to the metal on her Thelma&Louise road trip, and if you don't slow down, FOCUS on job#1 up there, YOU will let her drag YOU and your daughter off the cliff right behind her.
All that diasterinating, mind reading, blaming, explaining, etc etc up there and through most of your posts, here and on others threads? WASTE of YOUR time, YOUR energy, YOUR mental processes to do job #1. Which is? Proactively protect your daughter and yourself.
There will lots of time in the future to to ruminate on all that, please put it aside for now, it'll keep. Please focus on job #1:
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I'm going to suggest where ALL your mental effort should be placed at the moment, imo.
-Finding a lawyer -Finding a job/income -Asking parents to help with the finances -Your daughters -Getting your own checking account.
You need to focus man... on what NEEDS to be done in reality, laser sharp focus... RIGHT THE HECK NOW... your daughters are too important to be spinning wheels and energy elsewhere.
Your W and FIL are NOT on the above list.
What steps need to be taken to accomplish the above?
I'm gonna be blunt here...
If you do not get control of your emotions and thoughts, I am afraid your W is going to take you and your daughter right over the edge of the cliff with her.
And if she does, that's on YOU.
Not W, not FIL...YOU buddy.
Are YOU going to allow that to happen?
It's really up to you... YOU control only you, your thoughts, feelings and actions.
Time is short, please pull up your boots and get control of you and get going on job #1...
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm