brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today so i am 36 i have three

children with um the man that i've been married to for 18 years um my mother passed away back in

2013 and that was the only kind of any family whatsoever that I had.

So I'm not proud of the fact, but it is a very codependent situation, if you will.

I was a stay-at-home mom until my son started school. He's 10 and he started fifth grade this

year. I spoke with my husband about two years ago.

We brought it the subject of needing marriage,

needing marriage counseling, things like that.

I discussed with him that I was just not happy with the way that things were

and that, you know,

I thought we needed to speak with a lawyer or something like that.

He's a mechanic. I will say that.

And ever since we had that conversation about two years ago, I've had three vehicles

that have torn up and that has cost me work.

And he's the only person that has worked on these vehicles.

He's the only person that's maintenance them or that sticks them, if anything, has torn up.

He gets very upset.

I guess you could say I'm kind of confused about whether I'm in an abusive relationship or not,

because he's not physical with me, but he's kind of taking my resources away in an effort to keep me here

instead of trying to work through something for our children so that we can separate and give

them a more peaceful environment.

And financially and resource-wise, I'm stuck.

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