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How to cure a man's obsession

I have been separated from my husband for over 6 months now, and he is acussing me of cheating. I am not, but I am wondering if maybe he is sleeping around with other women and is accusing me of doing the same behavior so that he doesn't feel guilty.  Quite frankly, I do not care who he sleeps with because we're no longer together, but he is completely obsessed with me to the point that he stalks me.  We've ben married for over 10 years now, and the entire relationship has been a nightmare.  He's always accused me of strange off the wall things.  He's never trusted me, and I belive it stems from a previous relationship he had.  I just want him to leave me alone and go on with his life, but he is conviced that he cannot live without me.  He blames me for everything that goes wrong with his life, and his day is so focused on what I do all day, which is work a full time job and care for 3 kids (ages 16, 10 and 5), that he doesn't even work.  So here's the catch... after 10 years of him blowing all the money, getting us in debt, and losing everything we own because of his habits, I am now stuck taking care of 3 kids by myself with no child support, cannot afford rent, but the house is owned by his brother, so if I allow my husband to harrass me, his brother won't kick us out, but if I get a restraining order, he will most likely kick us out because his whole family wants me to let him come back home because they don't want to deal with him either.  I have no family that can help me out because they all live far away(on the west coast), and my parents and grandparents are deceased.  Any ideas on how I can convince him to leave me alone and go on with his life without any repercussions from his family?


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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

I understand all of these complications, and believe me, I don't think that this is easy or that you have any simple options.  I do think though that you do have options, and it sounds to me like you think that you don't have options.  Get a state lawyer and do what you need to do to get a divorce... there are many people without money that get divorces.  I would use your computer that you are using now to look for new jobs in another place, far enough away.  Once you have a new job, take your kids and go find a cheap place to live.  Start there, and build yourself a new life.  Make new friends and speak to the ones that you have lost touch with.  Tell them that you want to divorce your husband and that you need help, that you miss their friendship and that you are so sorry for what happened. 

Posted 2009-07-12T09:08:14Z
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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

I know that this will take a lot of effort but I really feel that this is the best option for you:  I think that you know that nothing good will come from this marriage, and that it simply needs to end.  I think that you need to file for divorce, and contact your family on the west coast.  Let them know that you need to start over with your life and that you would love to come and be a part of the family there.  That you need to find a job out there and an inexpensive place to live, that you would appreciate any help possible.  Tell them basically what you have stated here. You deserve to live a better life than this, and you need to give your children a better life as well.  Once you are divorced, you need to file a restraining order and make sure that you are getting child support for your children.  Then, you need to leave and go to where your family is.  Ask friends and family to help you get your feet on the ground there.  You can do it!  You just have to decide that you are going to be brave and do this.  Good luck to you.

Posted 2009-07-12T08:41:23Z
 
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Yeah, I would love to do that, and it's not an issue with bravery.  The family I do have left on the west coast cannot help me because they have no means to.  I don't have any friends because my husband destroyed any friendships I made while I was here.  Everyone is afraid of him...except for me!  He's kinda crazy, went after my neighbors friend with a butcher knife.  We were best friends before that.  I have no money to file for a divorce, and I live in SC, and my family lives in Wash state, not a short ways.  I just want him to give up and leave me alone.  The police has been called on him several times, but he always gets off scott free.  Believe me, if I didn't have any children to worry about, I'd leave everything and live in my car if I had to.  I am doing it okay on my own, but it's a slow progress, and if I could just get him to leave me alone it would go a little faster instead of things going backwards a bit for me every time he put a damper on my plans. 

Thank you for your advice though,  I appreciate it, but it's a bit more complicated than that.

Posted 2009-07-12T09:00:08Z
 
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I have done all of that before.  I left in my car with my 3 girls, and drove to where my father lived in NV.  I left everything behind, and before I had left, had a restraining order put on my husband.  My car barely made it to NV, my father was so screwed up on drugs that it wasn't healthy to even have my children around him, so I decided to try to make it to Wash State, and called my brother, who is also messed up on drugs, and asked for help.  He told me that if he didn't want to become involved, but would take my oldest child in if it would help out because she was old enough to take care of herself.  I couldn't stay there with my father because he was being violent, so I tried calling other family members for help.  I don't have many family members.  I don't have a bunch of brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, and what have you.  Yes, I do have options.  I have the option of leaving again with nowhere to go, no money for first last and damage deposit on a place, and he will harass me even more because it doesn't matter where I go, he finds me.  He uses my ss# to find me, and his parents have tons of money.  We also have two children together that I have to be linked to him through for another 13 years.  I have tried to leave several times.  Everytime I get a plan together, he and his family always already know and put a stop to what I am doing.  This is not a point of me not being strong enough to leg go.  This is a point of a spoiled rotten arrogant man who feels like everybody owes him something.  He's an alcoholic, and does cocaine and meth.  When the cops have to come out to your house to make sure your okay because the man is breaking all the windows out, and trying to kill your neighbor with a butcher knife because they tried to help you, and the police walk into your house and when they see all the blood inside they start looking for a body, you know it's bad.  When you have rocks throws through your car window with messages attatched to them while at thr grocery store, and they are from him, you wonder how he found out where you were when you told nobody where you were going.  Try getting a video sent to your e-mail of you in your own shower, and it's an e-mail address that is new and was created after he left.  Yeah, I know I can get legal asistance for a lawyer, and I have tried, but my mail is picked through before I get home.  You have no idea how much I have done to get away from him.  I had even went and got a post office box so that I could have that and change my address with the poeple and places that I wanted to receive mail from, then put in a change of address for the P.O. box, and he would have no way of finding me through an address correction request or a forwarding address correction, but his sister has the same name because she was never married.  We share the same first name, so she used to go down to the post office and pick up my mail.  She showed her ID and said that she lost her key and purchased a new one.  It took me 2 months to find out what had happened.  His uncle is a Lexinton County Sherriff, so every time the police are called, the call his uncle to deal with it because we live in Lexington County.  One time when I left, somehow there was a warrant out for my arrest, and my drivers license was suspended.  I'm telling you, I would be better off trying to think of a way to get him to move on!  His family finally knows he's a monster, but they won't help me because they want me to take him back.  This isn't some silly little obsession thing.  This is more like something you would find in a horror movie. I don't have the option of never having to comunicate with him again because we have children together, and he has rights to see them.  I tried to take those rights away, and I ended up losing because everything he does gets washed away by his uncle.  I've filed police reports before, and have been told that I could get in trouble for filing a false report.  The incident with the butcher knife was dropped.  My neighbor tried to press charges, but they wouldn't stick because somehow, even though it was not his uncle who came out for the incident, the evidence mysteriously disappeared.  The knife that he tried to stab the neighbor with stricken from the record because it was not there to be placed into evidence.  He pled not-guilty, and all charges were dropped because he had no other prior record of this type of behavior, and he said that it was the neighbor going after him, not the other way around.  The neighbor was just trying to help me becasue my olderst daughter went over there and asked to call the police, and the neighbor had came over to help me.  People just don't want to help becasue they don't like what happens to them.  It kind of runs on the same philosophy of let's say a person is covered by killer bees in which are attracted to their scent and will not leave, and as long as that person doesn't upset the bees, they are fine and will not be harmed, but if someone else comes into the picture trying to get the bees off they have to worry about being stung to death, and it may cause the bees to sting the person to death that they are trying to help in the first place, therfor the person tells them to just be still until they decide to go away.  My husband is my killer bees! I just need a way to convince him to let me go.  He's a sadist, and he enjoys doing sadistic things to me.  Let me ask you this, have you ever went to sleep at night and woke up to someone with their hands around your neck telling you that they will be the ones to choose whether or not your entitled to breathe?  This is not a normal situation.  The wrong choice could mean my life, so to me, a better choice is too not be so hasty on trying to take off again.  The only way I can really get out of this is to get him to lose interest.  The authorities have already been notified, I have involvement from many different organizations to keep us protected, but the truth of the matter is, just like they said, they need proof of what he is doing in order to press charges, and it's always handled within his family.  They don't want to have me run and take the chance on me potentially losing my life before they can help, and even they say to try to get him to lose interest.   That is waht I really need, a way to get him to lose interest!

Posted 2009-07-12T18:15:19Z
 
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If you want him to leave you alone, you need to leave him alone. As long as you continue talking to him he's going to continue to contact you & stalk you b/c he's obviously obsessed with you. Change your numbers, email, etc. He will have no choice but to leave you alone & get over you. If he shows up at your house, call the police. You need to put an end to this b/c he isn't going to.

Posted 2009-07-13T17:58:15Z
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