I have posted a couple of times previosly about my 17 year marriage to husband who gambles, drinks, and hits my oldest son who has adhd. After the last incident in which hubby broke a board over my son's back and arm, then I recieved a black eye when I tried to intervene ( i was caught in the cross fire), I knew it was time to leave. Now my husband is very angry, manipulative and threatening so I filed a TPO against himalong with divorce papers. Now he is calling mutual friends and telling them that I am abusive and he never touched my son and I am making this all up and he will fight me in court until I have nothing left. I am scared to death! I did not file a police report because I did not want him to loose his job ( he is a law enforcement officer). After I filed the tpo, child services got involved, interviewed my kids ( all told the truth), took pictures ( my son's bruises were nearly gone by that time). I am so scared he will lie and manipulate until he gets what he wants out of me. What do I do?

ajewett16

This is a hard problem that is going on. Well first...your husband (soon to be ex) is really mad at you. He really has no reason to be because he drinks and is really abusive to your son. I would have filed a police report because he shouldn't have gone and told your past friends that you are doing what he got introuble for. He is going to fight you in court but you need to get all your facts straight and make sure your kids have theirs. There really is nothing more I can say because it all depends on what goes on in court. Just rememeber one thing...you were right to file for divorce. If you didn't file for divorce you could have been more hurt then just a black eye. Just keep fighting for everything you got. Good luck. I hope everything goes ok.