I'm on the other side of this fence. My husband stays disconnected from me, our children, our personal life. Devoid of any passion except for the animals and has an obsession with saving an entire species. Problems that arise from this are my fault (always). period. He is sucessfully alianting our 13 yr., Looks for ways to find fault in every one of us that were close to him. (we have 3 children) and continually works our family to death with the care of his animals. I have to wait for his animals to bathe before I can before work. This is only one item in a long list of things where the animals come before the humans in our house. About 10 minutes ago he came home from the store with food for the animals but not for us.(Thats my job)As tears stream down my face I cannot express the pain I am going through right now. I love animals too but miss my husband and hate myself for not beeing able to remedy this situation.(He just starts screaming)I hate the screaming.The only good times are past memories. I'm so very tired. And I'm so very very lonely. I don't know why people do this to others. Maybe you can tell me.