I'm glad you had the gusto to post something so personal and serious. For me, as a man, it feels so weird to be verbally / mentally abused by a little woman, but as you referenced - it doesn't end there, the kids have to deal with it too. I can relate !
In the 11 years of commitment & playing house with my bi-polar stripper wife, she has destroyed countless, priceless, personal possessions and relationships.
After a decade of unprovoked ups and downs/verbal tirades / attacks - I've become so exasperated I've done everything from contemplate suicide by cop to yearn her own accidental death or my imprisonment. Loving someone like that can be cancerous. To date it's the most difficult thing I've endured, and that's saying something from an ex con and a victim of child abuse.
Only you know the reality/severity of your situation. I humbly suggest loving her from a distance.
Stick to your guns. Make her prove herself and make her get off of the poison so her yo yo personality and emotions can stabilize.
There is a real dangerous sense of entitlement, and a false sense of security and complacency that can come from the belief that someone would NEVER leave you or your children. The best thing I ever did in my relationship was prove that I could and would leave or have her removed, and most importantly go through the pain necessary to inflict change.
I wish you the best of luck and all the strength in the world. To love a bi polar / manic person is to have loved completely. I've never felt smarter, or dumber - more important, or more worthless - more loved, or loathed. Guess that's our burden to bear.
This is bigger than us though. You are the stabilizer. You must remain the source of consistency. Just remember moving forward, you can't reason with an unreasonable person. Take away the tools of negotiation and we're left with action. Choose your course of action and stick to it - every1 will be stronger for it.
Love and Respect, T9
