OK, after 5 years, my sister finally left her emotionally abusive husband. Thing is, she has done this twice before, and each time he follows her and she goes back. How do we help her make the break for good this time?
She has two children with him and he uses them as leverage with her, but when she goes home, he undermines her authority with them on everything. When she sets boundaries and rules for the 5 year old, he deliberatly assists the child in breaking them. When she is alone all day with her son, and attempts to put him in time out for bad behavior, he hits her and says his daddy will get her in trouble now - and his daddy babys the boy when she tells him about the incident and will argue with her about punishing the boy at all. The child is now having developmental issues, and his doctors told her its cause he has no clear rules.
We can keep her safe and help her provide for her children as long as she does not self destruct and give him a way to find her - help?
2006-11-19
04:53:22
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lilmissblossom
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Marriage & Divorce