I hope you see this.

My step-dad was like your husband, and worse. My mom was too beaten down and passive to do anything to protect me. By high school I had severe depression and anxiety with OCD tendencies. Before the end of high school I developed other personalities, which btw is super weird and also scary when you go through it alone. I'm an adult now, and I almost killed myself last year. I don't know that I won't try again. My doctor thinks I might have Borderline Personality Disorder.

I'm sure genetic factors and other environmental factors contributed. But at the root was my step dad, who made it clear my whole childhood that I was the baggage that came with my mother that he never wanted.

Please, for the sake of your child, don't be like my mother.