u/Best-Lynx-1017

I’ve typed out my story a dozen times and erased it a dozen times. It is so unnatural to admit that my wife emotionally abuses me. If you met me or us in public you say that guy has it all going on. But behind the curtain it’s nothing but belittlement, cruelty, endless criticism and worst of all flat out venom. Nothing I have done for 9 years has been good enough. But my greatest error was not getting away before we had kids. Now if I leave that means at my kids will be alone with her at best probably 50 % of the time and the thought of how she would treat them without me there as a buffer makes me sick to my stomach. I am trapped but I am also so lonely. I truly fear I will never be happy ever again