Hi Peggy, thanks for your kind words. It is very hard and each day at the moment is like a battle. I am not able to live with my family as they are in a different country, I don’t have much of a support system here in Germany, unfortunately. That’s one of the reasons I decided to write down my thoughts here.

Financially I’m tied to my house and the home where we both live. Ideally we would sell it in one or two years when our potential profits would set us both up for a new beginning individually. That’s the problem, I have to live with her and her inactivity, while she lives off me and builds a new relationship. It hurts like hell to come home from working full time and find her drinking and happy on the phone with her new boyfriend.