She Wants To Divorce Her Husband, But She Feels Guilty Leaving Him While He’s In Such A Tough Spot With His Mental And Physical Health
This 33-year-old woman is currently married, but she feels as though her relationship with her husband is broken beyond repair.
He is struggling with a multitude of issues– ranging from physical health problems to being deeply depressed.
He also gets angry at her whenever she tells him to see a doctor, claiming that she should be offering moral support instead of trying to get him on medications.
“So I feel like I’m a mom, not a wife,” she said.
Apparently, her husband is not ambitious whatsoever, either, and he is always complaining about how she doesn’t give him enough attention.
Quite frankly, she admitted that it’s becoming increasingly harder to even interact with her husband, too. He is just constantly so negative.
“I understand why. I also have depression. But I take medications,” she explained.
“And when we’re apart, I feel relief because I don’t have to care for him anymore. It’s just one person instead of two.”
Her husband’s situation has also become increasingly harrowing lately, and she really doesn’t believe that he is capable of picking himself up and getting himself out of it.
Bostan Natalia – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Whenever she asks her husband what he would do if she weren’t there to help him, he even has a very morbid response. Apparently, he just tells her, “I would probably die.”
She actually believes that, too, since he is always alienating everyone else in his life. In fact, most people they know even hate her husband and repeatedly tell her to dump him– including when her husband is right next to her.
So now, she really doesn’t know what to do about their marriage.
“But I feel like my life will only get worse from here, and there is no hope for me otherwise,” she vented.
Still, she feels like it would be cruel to leave her husband– who claims he cannot survive without her. That’s why she can’t help but wonder if getting a divorce despite her husband’s tough situation would really be the wrong thing to do.
Does it sound like she is stuck in a toxic, one-sided relationship? If she were to remain in her marriage for her husband’s sake, wouldn’t that only fuel more resentment? What advice would you give her?
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