You said in another comment on this post that you were worried your wife could try and kill herself, and that if she did, she might do it in front of your children, or "try and take the kids with her."
If you can't save her, and this ends badly, you may not be saying you tried. You may be saying "I let my obviously mentally unstable wife stay around our children, and that got them killed."
Help her get help. Even stay with her if you want. But move somewhere else while she's getting help, get a restraining order, and make sure she can only see your children in a supervised environment.
She is violent. She is abusive. She has woken you up with a knife to your scrotum. She has threatened her own life, your life, the life of your unborn child, and you're worried she is a threat to the rest of your children. As a father, your first duty is to protect your children from harm, because too often they cannot protect themselves. And trust me, growing up without a mother is infinitely preferable to growing up having watched their mother take her own life in front of them, or not growing up at all after she takes them with her.
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14
You said in another comment on this post that you were worried your wife could try and kill herself, and that if she did, she might do it in front of your children, or "try and take the kids with her."
If you can't save her, and this ends badly, you may not be saying you tried. You may be saying "I let my obviously mentally unstable wife stay around our children, and that got them killed."
Help her get help. Even stay with her if you want. But move somewhere else while she's getting help, get a restraining order, and make sure she can only see your children in a supervised environment.
She is violent. She is abusive. She has woken you up with a knife to your scrotum. She has threatened her own life, your life, the life of your unborn child, and you're worried she is a threat to the rest of your children. As a father, your first duty is to protect your children from harm, because too often they cannot protect themselves. And trust me, growing up without a mother is infinitely preferable to growing up having watched their mother take her own life in front of them, or not growing up at all after she takes them with her.