WOW...I applaud you all...I am in a similiar, miserable...soul-sucking situation..I have NO $...because I have been home with our daughter. I have 3 other sons. I am going to look for a job soon and put my daughter in school.(I have been home schooling her) I don't want her in public schools but if I don't try to get out of this I will have no soul left. I have left twice...beleived the lies and came back. Stupid me. I feel as if I am going to drown. I also knew at the very begining I should not marry him. First husband left for greener grass...and left me and his 3 baby boys. I married this man on the rebound. We have a beautiful daughter together..Thank God for her. I have been on food stamps before and have lived in a literal shack....I don't want that for my kids....I do see why women never leave...but I know I can not live this way forever. I'm 43...I stll have some good years left right?