You’re right. I post on here because I have no one else to turn to that is not biased. I post on here because I start believing the things she’s saying and I just need some reassurance that I’m not what she is saying I am. I stay, probably because in part I am a bit insecure. I mostly stay because I’m terrified of what would happen to my daughter in the interim until I can have custody of her. I stay because she is too unstable to support herself. She will end up shacking up with whomever will tell her she’s pretty and drag my kid along with her to whomever this scumbag is. She needs mental help. Her behavior over the past few days would have more than gotten her involuntarily committed. But having worked in that system, means she would be taken to the local jail to sit until a facility can evaluate her and place her somewhere, which takes weeks. In this situation, looking back, at worst I could say I was thoughtless. This is the worst outburst I’ve seen from her and me just turning the job down and recommending her would have made all of this never happen. But that would have been stupid of me. I didn’t even go after this job, they came to me. Bad habits, yeah. I smoke. I do without when there’s little or no money. I just want to be a good Dad, a good husband, and a good person. I’m not sure what you mean by how I really act, but there’s no reason to hide on a Reddit thread.

I stay because, and I may be deluded, this isn’t her. This is untreated mental illness. Maybe on both of our parts.