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Originally posted by rbarton
HardDrive, you are absolutely right, and this is something I've tried to discuss with my wife. She has been with our daughter 24 hours a day since she was born. She was trying to start a small business in the latter part of last year, with our daughter on her hip the whole time. We have NEVER gone out by ourselves without our daughter because my wife doesn't trust anyone to watch her. I think this has played a big part in what's going on, but all of my wife's unhappiness with her life (feeling trapped and out of control of her situation) is being directed at me.
Yes, I do watch our daughter while my wife goes out, but I only started doing this a few months ago. Mostly because my wife wasn't willing to part with her for any length of time prior to that.
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She needs to get her ***** in order. Not sure how she's going to do that as a single parent though unless she has family around who will watch the kid. For me I was the de facto single parent for about 7 years, so once I moved out and became a "part time" (physical custody) dad, I actually had some breathing room.
But THE most important person in this equation is your daughter. You have to make decisions that are best for her. And realize that the decision might be to divorce. The one good thing about my divorce is that my relationship with my son is better than ever, as is my ex's relationship with him. But we have worked very hard to put him first in all of our plans, while balancing what we need as individuals. But in the end, *he* is the most important criteria...