Dear Gigi:

I figured to get along with him you’d need to submit to his family but I didn’t suggest that you should, absolutely not. I am very much against submitting to anyone. Reading about the way his family treats you as well as he himself, I feel badly for you. I know how it feels to be treated badly and I hate thinking that you are experiencing this. I think you should free yourself from this unfortunate situation you found yourself in.

Clearly he is not willing for family to be his  chosen family, or the way you term it, the nuclear family, you, him and your child. His family of origin, the one he was born to mistreats you and he does as well. I don’t see any other way but removing yourself and your child from this situation. But you will need help, someone to help you there, where you are at.

anita