So, I think it's time for me to stop being so vague seeing as how a lot of people on here are my friends. My wife and I split up 2 months ago. Long story short, I had fallen into a really deep depression that lasted for two years and, in that time, I turned into an [censored], became someone she didn't recognize and neglected my family. After a long time of this, she couldn't take it anymore so she took my son and she left. We were still pretty much together, just not living together. We were trying to work things out and I was feeling better and better and finally starting to get over this 2-year slump through therapy etc. Then, last week, I spanked my son because he threw food in my face and was acting out, and my wife absolutely flipped. Because, obviously if a father spanks his son he is abusive. So now, she won't even speak to me. She says she's trying to "distance" from me - which basically means she's trying to make it easier to move on from me. She says that I basically proved to her that no matter how well I do and for how long, I always have it in me to flip without warning. She has made herself believe that I am an abusive man and that she escaped from an abusive relationship.
