Originally Posted By: Painter
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The sad part is is that my wife is making her decision based on such negative emotions. She "hates" me and she "knows that that will never change".


When you planned your marriage, she loved you and knew that would never change. Feelings ebb and flow, and the ones that grow are the ones you feed.

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It's my kids. She will take them and displace them from our home.




Are you sure she can do that? Have you talked to a lawyer about it?


Painter. Us DBers understand that feelings ebb and flow. We are the one's who look inward and realize that feelings can change both ways and that dynamics of relationships can change many times.

So far as your question about my children. Yes, I have a lawyer (a very good one who is a family friend, a founding member of his firm, and has been practicing family law for over 30 years) and there is nothing legally I could do to prevent her from leaving the house and taking the children. The only thing she is legally prevented from doing would be to take them out of state. That she cannot do.