Do Not Stay In A Toxic Relationship For Your Children!

Show #48                                                                      3/1/2022

Tonight's Guest Is Amy,

I am 38-year-old women with a 6-year-old daughter. My nightmare started ten years ago in February of 2012.  I was in a relationship for a year, with a man, that end roughly after a year of dating.  Only about 3 months after ending that relationship, he continued to pursue me and tell me he was a changed man. He promised me he would give me the world; we would get married and have children. Our relationship was a normal relationship, with the occasionally arguments, until close to another year later. In the end of 2014, I became pregnant and married within a 4-month period and that is when the tides really took a turn.  He began drinking everyday while I was pregnant, claiming he would stop once his daughter was born. But he only ended up showing up to my unexpected c-section delivery wasted.  After weeks, that turned to months, and then years he finally almost drank himself to death and I had to drive him to the emergency room at 245am, while my mother rushed over to watch our 2 1/2-year-old daughter.  Through all the alcoholic behavior it was always my fault he was the way he was. I work full time and solely took care of our daughter because he was always drunk. I did at one point believe the lies and verbal abusive things he told me.  But as I forced him to check himself into rehab for 3 months, I was so verbally abused and beaten down I was guilted to stay in the toxic marriage and horrible situation for my daughter from HIS OWN PARENTS. I thought maybe I should stay for the sake of our daughter, but I was wrong. After his release from rehab, he focused on himself, and by that, I mean abandon his family after 5 months, to have an affair with another women. After I confronted him regarding the affair, he claimed it was over. We went to months of marriage counseling.  I knew then I wasn't going to stay in the marriage. I filed fo