SoloUK this sounds so difficult. I can't imagine. My H is hard work sometimes, and he speaks to me atrociously sometimes, but he doesn't come near this type of behaviour. I think, as hard as it is to follow, Dilly has some very good advice. Treat him as a stranger who isn't very well - you can have some distant sympathy for his madness while keeping you and your children as insulated from it has possible. He's clearly not in his right mind.