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Old Aug 07, 2020, 05:48 AM
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Your first post labelled your marriage as "bad", saying you don't have the strength to leave. Now you seem to want to justify staying.

How can a parent be a good parent if they're just physically present but detached? Physical presence does not make a good parent. Involved, attentive, caring, loving and giving makes a good parent. That's also what makes a good spouse, which he is not.

I'm sorry, Tisha. It seems like a bad marriage and an abusive marriage, but you don't want to leave or you don't have the strength to leave. Emotional and sexual neglect is real, as is gaslighting.

You keep blaming your own mental health issues. I think it's your mental health issues that are keeping you stuck and unable to leave an abusive and toxic marriage.
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