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It is already extremely hard fo rme to get sleep, but now I'm freaking out about an issue on reddit and can't go to sleep. Its now 11:43 am an I've been up for 20 hours. I also made th emistake of dirnkign more caffeine at 7 am and thought I coudl power through this day. I can't.

It feels genuinely strange that the smartest way to handle my situation is to be polite, keep cooking, keep cleaning, and keep helping with everything outside his job. We haven't been together in any real sense in almost eight years.

Getting money together has been slow because I had trouble obtaining a document I needed for ID, which held up everything else. He knows I'm waiting on the last piece of that now, and his attitude has gotten noticeably less hostile since. But I'm here until I've quietly built up enough of a cushion to go.

Had time to write because he's out DROPPING X,XXX at a STRIPclub tonight. No shade at all to the PEOPLE working, get yr bag. It's just remarkable to me that this has been the pattern for over a decade while the house he owns falls apart around us.

There's also a property I was told I'd be added to, which never happened, after I put a significant amount of inherited money in. That's a longer story and IT WILL BE handled.

My question for anyone who's been here: how did you manage to keep playing along, staying friendly, doing the household stuff — while knowing it's completely over and that in a couple of years you'll be somewhere much better and far away

I need a reality check. I always assumed the family lawyers handled my aunt’s estate properly when she passed away in 2015. I just looked at the records for the first time, and what I found is terrifying.

Back then, my aunt was in a severe active addiction crisis. She had no car, was totally isolated, and was facing a major DUI court date in a different town. On the exact day of her court hearing, her ex-husband (they had been divorced for 25 years and he was remarried) intercepted her. Instead of letting her go to court, he took her to his own town.

Instead of a DUI lawyer, he had a highly influential local estate and trust attorney waiting. While she was completely impaired and panicking about missing court, they had her sign a will. It made the ex-husband Executor and gave him 2/3 of everything—completely cutting out her surviving special-needs brother.

The estate was worth well over $1 million, mostly in high-value personal property, but her actual real estate was sold way under value.

Is a will even valid if it was signed in a high-distress crisis state like this? Do we have any ground to get a judge to reopen the case for a full accounting because the property was undersold and she was clearly impaired?