u/JoeSchmo110

Our finances have been extremely strained the last couple of years due to a combination of college tuition, medical bill, and lots of home and car repairs. I ended up having to file for Chapter 13 last summer. My wife is really trying to press this forward. She wants out yesterday. I am not only concerned she intends to try and leave with my son to her family in Florida, but that because of the bankruptcy I’m literally going to be stuck in a hotel for a year. She swears she isn’t going to take my son, and I really want to believe her, but with her being so eager to get this over I think there’s obviously a plan lined up - or a new person lined up.

It’s early in the process. 18 years together, married 16.5 with one son who is 14. My wife is just done. We tried therapy and she quit after a month. She is pressing for mediation to avoid a lengthy and costly fight. I don’t want this, but I know I cannot stop it. I’m so tired, but can’t sleep. Everyone says life will be better on the other side, but I just don’t know how. Not only am I losing her, I’m losing my son 50% of the time, and I’m losing her entire family whom I was very close with. I’m losing my house, probably my “husband’s friend group” and who knows what else. I just don’t want to face this or the world right now, but that’s not the way the world works.

Thanks for reading, just needed to type that.