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Wednesday, March 24, 2010 doting mother asks

Q: DESERTION BY HUSBAND

my husband deserted me 2years back and i also have a child who is now 4 years old. which means he actually left us when she was 2 years old.we had our share of differences but nothing that shud end up in seperation. over the last 2 years i have tried my best to reconcile including my family and relatives. he just says that he doesnt want to continue . his family and relatives also have not taken any initiatives to patch us up. Let alone this, he has not paid a penny for the last 2 years and always is more interested in only meeting the kid over the weekends. initially i thought that its our fight and i shudnt involve the kid..so i let him meet her but later on even after 4 months, he didnt show any inclination to come back ..or go to a counsellor or go to a lawyer..all he wants is walk off hte marriage and see the kid over the weekend. i dont have any support system and iam completely getting stressed out doing home work, outside work and looking after the kid , her school, activities and studies. iam just lost what iam supposed to do.i even offered him that if he doesnt want us to be togehter, then he can take his kid permanently bcos honestly i dont think there was any big reason for him to leave us and on top of that if he is only interested in the kid, then let him take her. but to that also he says that he wants teh kid to have both parents !! i told him that kid shud get both parents together and u cant just walk off the marriage. to which he doesnt have any response.worse, he says that no other woman can take care of her the way i do !!!he is one HYPOCRITE !!

Honestly after all this, i really feel cheated and used. I dont think he shud deserve meeting the kid also ..can u pls help me out

a desperate mother !

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3/24/10 11:21pm

Sad as it is, I don't think your husband has any plans to be a family again and I think the only way you're going to be able to move on is to stop holding on and move forward with your life.  I wonder about your daughter, that you would so easily give her up to him full-time.  I agree with Michel's advice about getting a lawyer and getting child support and not using your daughter as a bargaining chip.  She's old enough to remember this the rest of her life.  And, this sounds a little blunt, but I hope you don't refer to her as "the kid" when she's in earshot.  It makes her sound like an object.  None of this is her fault, your husband had his reasons for leaving - maybe nothing big was wrong, but something was missing for him.  I'm not saying he should have deserted you, especially without paying child support, but trying to hang on to him when he doesn't want to be there is only going to make you feel worse.  Perhaps therapy would help you get some perspective.  I wish you all the best and hope you'll let us know how it goes.

 

 

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By doting mother— Last Modified: 12/25/10, First Published: 03/24/10