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Old Aug 19, 2009, 12:26 PM
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i dont think i can do this anymore

i dont think i can handle this marriage any longer...im not even sure i still love him...but that could simply be because i am angry at the moment...


my hsuband is sitting behind me cussing and yelling and ing about money....

i took his debit card away and hid it yesterday...because he once again, for the 5 time this MONTH, over drew our account.

in case some of you dont know (i posted it already once i think) ill break down our budget...

in a month

he brings home about 1000

rent is 640 something.

electric is 180

grocerys 200

ciggarettes for him when we can sometimes afford it 100 (i have quit, because we CANT afford it, but he refuses to)

phone 10$ but its in my moms bill and my mom doesnt make me pay it if i cant.

thats IT.

already we pay out more than what we have...and constantly borrow from friends, family, payday advances, and direct deposit advances....and god forbid anything unexpected happen in which we need more money for



well, right now his complaint is that HE has no EXTRA spending money...

well im sorry. NEITHER DO I.

i couldnt even afford to get our 5 year old school supplies. my mom paid for ALL of it.



so...i just gave him an ultimatum...i told him to think about it all day....and to tell me tonight after ayla goes to bed...

i told him that if he wanted all 'his money' back again (we were split up for 6 months last year and i didnt get any of 'his' money) and he wanted to spend all of 'his' money on crap, like mc donalds, monster drinks, and random candy and junk thruought the day....then to just TELL Me...and ill give him back his debit card, me and ayla will move back in with my mother, and then he can do it all by himself. and have all the extra money he wants...

then of course...being my husband he says 'oh thats nice' and stomps away....



am i being mean here? this is not the first time this has happend. we have been married 3 years. and of those three years, i have been hospitalized for suiside 6 times (i have NEVER been admited to the hosptial before i met and married him) we fight constantly...arguing over stupid things over and over and over again...

we just got food stamps...and aparently he thinks 'oh good we have food stamps now i can spend MORE money' im sorry thats just now how it works...



for those of you who dont know...my husband has mental retardation (im not saying it as an insult. he was in his mothers birth canal for way too long and was oxygen deprived for almost 8 minutes when he was born)

i am just at my wits end...



the only thing holding me back...is my daughter. her school is here...my moms house is 25-30 minutes away...granted, the food stamps are in my name, so my husband wont have those, so i suppose i can help my mom pay for her gas, by buying grocerys for her. but that wont work forever. and my duaghter LOVES this school and her teacher and already has many friends...is it selfish of me to want to take her away from all that to get away from my husband?



we are in marriage councelling...the councellor says give it time, but we havnt seen him for a week or so.

or do you think this is still savable? could a weekend (or week long) marriage retreat help? a vacation together? or even simply time APART?

any advice is greatly apreciated....thank you...



*PS* NOW, he is ing at me for having a ciggarette because of all the stress. and he also demands that i take it outside which im not going to because HE smokes in the damn house!

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Old Sep 3, 2009, 12:48 PM   #141  
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Divorce or not, she may still be having financial issues, due to not being able to work or having emotional instability when working.

It was just a suggestion on how to save some money, if applicable.
True, but she's now living with her mother.

It's still really important to read all the posts, just so you know what's going on.
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Old Sep 3, 2009, 03:10 PM   #142  
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First, I would recommend "Financial Peace University" by Dave Ramsey. (Real Debt Help - Get out of debt with Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover Plan.) when you can afford it. Then try counseling through a good local church. Sometimes they can and will teach and say things that conventional counselors don't.

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Old Sep 4, 2009, 11:15 AM   #143  
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hi everyone.
i guess the saying is true 'when it rains it pours' my grandmother has been in a bad MS attack for about a week now, in severe pain whenever she even just moved a little and developed a 104.8 fever yesterday, and refused to let me cool her down with a towl, wouldnt take any medicine for me, wouldnt even take her daily regular medications and i couldnt put her in the tub or shower, because she has to be able to help me. normally she has upper body strenth and can hold herself up. but during this attack, she is so lifeless there is just no way to put her in the shower safely. so i told her 'granmda i love you very much, but if you DO NOT let me get your fever down before it kills you (it made it up to 105.4!!!) i am calling the hosptial to take you in and you WILL get your medicine from them.

so thats where i was yesterday. she hates hospitals and was so upset that we took her. but it was a blessing that i decided to take her, because we also found out that she had a bad bad BAD UTI that the doctor said was so so close to making her septic. she also was extreamly dehydrated (i gave her water, she was drinking, but the fever was drying it all up) AND, what would have killed her faster than anything else, was that her potassium was at 2.1!!!! normal is 3.5 and low is 2.5, but hers was dangerously low.

but she is ok now. once they forced the tyenol into her (rectally unfortunatley becasue she refused to take it orally)

and hung a saline drip and van-co-my-acine (sorry i cant spell it right) and leviquin. then a potassium bag (in a seperage iv for some reason) she got better almost immediately. about 2 hours later, she was talking louder and clearer, her face wasnt so pale, and she wasnt in pain anymore. so im sure that made her feel better.


i am sorry everyone. even i see the problems that your talking about...and im sorry i made you all not believe me...

J, your right, im sorry im not taking my meds, i forgot them at the old house. and though its only been a few days, its probably affecting me. ive been feeling a little depressed. but thats it.

i am a little blasé about all of this...but you guys have to realise that i spent alot of years with aylas bio father treating me like this, i dont like to say this, because its terrible, but im kinda 'used to it' im sorry

alty, you know that i dont disagree with you hardly ever. in fact i cant remember anytime i have disagreed with you...but i have to here. you private messaged me (i wont share the message) that men dont all of a sudden change to abusive. your wrong hon. it does happen. aylas dad started out as sweet as sweet can be. and he gradually slowly changed and became more and more controlling untill he was finally pushing me and then throwing things at me and then hitting me. *hugs* i hope me disagreeing with you doesnt make you mad.


im gonna try to make a list of all the stuff that happend. these last few





teusday morning 9/1:

i was on the phone with mom, he asked what was for dinner. i said 'hang on hon ill tell you in a sec'
this was when i was in a good mood, and was talking nicely...

he started stomping, yelling, 'f-ing stupid b#### cant even anwer my dam question'
and stomped off into the other room.

my mom said she couldnt hear me over him so she told me to talk to him and call her later while he was at work.


this is where i think it got confusing in all my rush and anger and upsetness while posting originally. im reading back as i type this out to fix any errors.
FIRST he said 'your mother is an f-ing b#### anyways, i dont know why you even talk to her'

then i yelled at him and told him ALL the things my mother has done for us. like pay our bills when we were behind, she let us live with her when we first got married. and then let us move back in when we lost our first place. she has done SO MUCH for us, and asks nothing in return. yet she is a 'bi###'

then he ran at me and hit me in the face. it was in the side of my jaw on the right side (he is left handed to let you know just so that it doenst confuse anyone)

this is also where it got confusing (for me too, now that i am reading everything)

he left for work after hitting me. after he hit me i stormed into my room and slammed and locked the door. he left for work.

i called my mom back and said 'im sorry i cant deal with this anymore'

she told me to pack my things and call uncle ted (the police officer) to come get our stuff in his truck.

it was while my uncle and aunt were there helping me pack that issac called and tried to say sorry, and i said im sorry too, because i cant handle this anymore'and he said 'what are you talking about are you leaving??" and i said 'YES I AM'

he hung up. which told me he was on his way so i called the cops.

Issac got there and was freaking out (he kept switching back and fourth between being angry for me taking the computer, and crying telling me not to leave)

and btw, the computer is the ONLY common property i took, because it has aylas school stuff in it, my school stuff in it, and my job searches in it. i left him EVERYTHING. i only took my clothing, aylas stuff, and the computer. and i was goign to get my nic nacs and vases, but those got destroyed.

then the police were there, and saw how agitated he was, and how upset i was and told issac to leave and come back when i was gone. then the police officer advised me to make a report about him hitting me.

so i told issac the truck was full and i would be back tomrrow to get the rest of it. issac left. we finished getting my stuff in the truck and all that. and left.

later that night, issac called. threw a fit screaming. all that is accurate. he yelled screamed threw a fit. told me he destroyed my stuff. called ALL night long. i finally shut my phone off, and he started calling my moms phone so my dad answered and told him to stop calling.




WEDNESDAY, 2/9:

after taking ayla to school with uncle ted (i dont go over there without him anymore) we went by the house to get the rest of my stuff. and he had absolutely destroyed EVERYTHING . not just my stuff. EVERYTHING. i told the apartment manager and she came and took pictures. after we got what little we could salvage, we went home and i called the police (which i needed to do anyway) and filed a report for him hitting me, harrassing me on the phone, and destroying my stuff. i figured that was the best way to to it instead of doing a bunch of seperate ones.


yesterday, Thursday 3/9::

i went to the doctors this morning, got some pain pills (IB 800mg) the doctor said it was sore and bruised, but its nothing more than soft tissue soreness.

this was the day that grandma went into the hopstial and i was there from lunch time at about 12, untill this morning at 6.


i hope this clears stuff up...
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i hope this clears stuff up...
Yeah it does... you need to take your meds. The story is still bogus.

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um...duh...
i have an appointment on monday to get new prescriptions from my doctor...ive only been with out them for 3 days
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Jennie, the fact remains, the police would not have let him leave if he assaulted you. That's not the way things are done, ever!

That's the part I find hardest to believe.
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well im sorry i dont know what to tell you.

thanks everyone.
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well im sorry i dont know what to tell you.

thanks everyone.
Jennie, I just want the truth, that's all.

I wish I could believe you, I really do. If you were assaulted and you're just really
bad at telling the facts, then you deserve all the help you can get.

If you were on the outside looking in, what would you think? There are just too many
things that don't add up, the police and their lack of action being the main thing, at least
to me.

I don't know how you can clear this up, I really don't, but right now, you haven't, not for
me anyway.

Either way, there is help for you, so I hope you get it, whatever it may be.
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i just have to throw something out there. the fact is that some cops are bad at doing their jobs. my dad went on a number of rampages breaking things, hitting me and my mother. he tried to run her over in the street, after he'd already hit her. we called the police and got the same bs response along the lines of "he didn't really do anything wrong...sir, leave til you've cooled off...it's his house, he can do what he wants." they even told me and my mother that we shouldn't do things to upset him. i wish that i knew then all that i know now because looking back i know how wrong they were. but back then, i didn't know anything. and my mother was useless. so, i don't know, maybe the cops did give jennie the wrong information, maybe she's not giving us the full store. but it is possible that the cops that she spoke with were the same sort of lazy no-good cops that came out for me.

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jennie,

Before I ask a couple of questions, I want to let you know a bit about who I am so that you don't think I am a newcomer who only read the last page or pages 1-10.

In case you haven't seen the introduction page, I am Cats' Cat (spouse, wife, life mate, whatever term you want to use ). I may have just joined but I have been reading the boards for quite awhile and have read this one since it began.

As the others have stated, I, too, have noticed some inconsistencies in the time-line and events. Most of the time-line problems are a bit clearer after your post earlier today. However, one event in particular and the people involved still needs some clarification.

Where was your uncle (the ex-police officer-current guard) when Isaac showed up and started rampaging and when the officers told you to "file a report" about him hitting you? I am finding it difficult to believe that he of all people would have allowed the officers to essentially dismiss your accusation.

Did you tell the police about the physical abuse before they told him to leave? Or after he was already gone? If after, why didn't your aunt or uncle say anything?
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