Rocco, please try to make it work, if you can, because we must suffer for what is right. Take pictures of your S's face when she hits him, and keep them in a safety deposit box, they are pretty inexpensive, I got one for some of my stuff. Yes, if she is really abusive to your S, call the police, maybe that will shake her up, or maybe it will cause her clan to form a circle around her and try to keep your kids from you. How often does she do this? Is it daily or what? What preceeds this? I am glad you are not biased against women, because we sometimes can admit our mistakes, and want to fix what we break. Believe me I would never marry again, if it came to that, but because I believe in death do us part. My H hasn't done alot of bad stuff to me, but this EA he is involved in has hurt me terribly. he has said things to me about how awful I am, some of it true some of it exaggerated. I can't get used to him now and then deciding he has to rehash the same old accusations, the same old situations in which I failed him. It hurts to sit there and take it while crying my heart out. I try not to cry when he says these things, because they all say H's don't want to see a whimpering weak W. I hop what you say is right, that our M is salvageable, because I don't think H has decided whether to leave me, because last month when we had a confrontation, he said he would leave when school was out for the yaer. Then later he said he had no plans to leave. So, I don't know where I stand with this. I know at one time he and ow were planning for him to leave me when son turns 17. or maybe that was the date they were going to have sex for the first time. I don't know, it was a date marked on a calendar, for "H's and ow"s date". I am not supposed to ask about things likie that, because it can set us back. You know though I heard something the other day that was so true, If God can resurrect his only son from death, he can resurrect your marriage from death, too. Hey, maybe when you start showing her that you aren't going to give her and her family the reactions they love, then maybe something positive can happen. It is a game with them, and you are the pawn, so stop being the pawn, and they can't play the game anymore. I am serious, try this tonight if they bait you and tell me what happens. L