I have been sticking it out with my ‘man’ of 13 years. We have been married for 2 and have a one year old daughter. Bottom line, I swallow my pride a lot and take a lot of verbal hits from him because I don’t want my child coming from a broken home. But I can’t do this anymore. He makes my life miserable every day by telling me he doesn’t love me, that I’m a bitch and whole slew of names. This is all unprovoked. I can’t be the bigger person anymore I am sinking. I work come home take care of our beaut daughter, take care of myself and my appearance, try to better myself everyday and all I get back are insults to chip at my self esteem. I’m doing this all for her but in the long run we are probably better off without him.

I’m also scared if we share custody, my daughter will be in more contact with his mom’s boyfriend whom I don’t trust without me there.