u/Difficult_Extent_995

The title explains all. I am being left because she doesn't want to help financially (equally) and equally shoulder the raising of the kids. She wants me to do it ALL, which deprives me of a relationship with both her and the children as I grind out my life working, thus the family unit suffers.

She says that I have "no idea" how to run a household, and attend to the kids and their needs. This is simply not true. She helicopter-parents and gives the children everything without hesitation or careful consideration of unintended consequences, such as the unrealized demise of everyone deserving "participation trophies".

This approach is counter-productive to effective and positive-parenting (in general).

Besides, in reality, I actually do a way more realistic job than she does, but that's another topic of its own. Any family (especially ours) realizes far greater benefits with 2 parents working part-time jobs or at least the parental combination of part-time job and WFH job.

She just was raised like an entitled little princess and isn't having any of that. Divorce is eminent because I am both a realist and minimalist. She tends to lean towards the traditional Gold Digger that watches too many Desperate Housewives of Anycity, USA shows. This is NOT the woman that I married. And I swear that these delusional feminist movement chartered shows have warped a generation or two of good women with wholesome values.

I am at a loss of words and thoughts on this stark reality of mine.

The title explains all. I am being left because she doesn't want to help financially, equally (which means her getting a mindless retail job, part time). This helps the family because it saves me grinding it out 80 hours a week, and because I am very efficient caring for the kids needs.

It is a cake walk for me (not for her) because I don't helicopter parent and do the on-demand entitled parenting thing (ie. Kids have chores).

I honestly don't feel that raising kids is that difficult. Not to say it's not challenging per se, but I run a household like a cake walk because I am very organized.

She acts like she has so much to do (that I don't account for) when in reality she listens to her mother, who is the demise of our impending seperation.

In summary, raising kids is like coasting in the sunset with a margarita in my hand because I know how to "say no" to kids that think they are entitled TL;DR