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Old Dec 28, 2020, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by divine1966 View Post
Sadly threatening suicide is not uncommon abusive manipulative method to keep spouse from leaving. My coworker is married to abusive jobless addict who not only threatens suicide but described what he’ll put in a suicide note that he’ll send to the whole family, saying nasty things about her. She is still married. One time she was so distraught she showed me what he texted her that day. Made me sick.
Now that truly IS SICK.

My ex fiance did something very similar to me - threatened suicide every time I tried to kick him out of the apartment. It worked - I would take him back in, out of fear that he could hurt himself. Plus, he was homeless.

Boy, do I really know how to pick them!
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