My husband and I want to get a divorce of 10 years. We don’t have kids together, we both have grown kids except I have one 16-year-old still living at home with us. My marriage is toxic! I live with mental abuse from my husband my whole marriage. I have dealt with physical abuse from him as well years ago. I have stayed in the marriage because I was a single mom for so long and had to work a dead-end job because I didn’t finish high school, no college education, and when I was married to my first husband I didn’t work for 20 years I was a stay-at-home mom. Then I divorced him, got pregnant with another man at 50 years old, we never married. I struggled so bad for 10 years. Had to work at a gas station for minimum wage under a demon-possessed awful mean boss because I didn’t have to work nights and weekends because I had no one to watch my son. My parents and grandparents are gone. I only have my sister and she doesn’t have any money. Her and her family were struggling as well. So I had no help. I did get some child care help from the government and a free gov phone and food stamps, thank God it really helped! But I had an old broken-down car with no air in the summer in Alabama when it got 100 degrees in the summer I had to drive around on it with my baby and we were sweating every day in that car and it broke down all the time as well. I met my husband; he told me he would take care of me and my son and I wouldn’t have to work. I was thrilled!!! But didn’t know it had all these awful strings attached! We have a terrible marriage and we do not love each other at all! We actually hate each other. My husband screams and yells and cusses at me every 3 months, says he wants a divorce, and this has been going on for 10 years. We both want out but I’m scared. I have a car but it’s in his name and we owe a lot of money on it. I couldn’t afford the car payments. I don’t have a job, the house we live in is falling apart my husband has just let it go. So when we sell it we won’t get any money from it we will probably owe money. My prayer request is that I’m seeking God’s hand in all this. I don’t know what to do I don’t know how to start all over again from scratch. I want God’s will for me, his guidance! I have been praying about this for years and I believe it’s time for me to leave this toxic marriage! My 16-year-old that lives with us hates my husband. Because he yells and cusses at him all the time. For the last 2 years he just quit talking to him! It’s not because my son is bad, disrespectful; it is solely because my husband is jealous of him. My son will not come out of his room for fear of my husband so he just stays in his room it is so sad! My son is such a good boy. He makes good grades never gets in trouble at school. Actually, he has autism and all his teachers and principal rave about him and say they wish all the kids that go to that school were as good as my son! I have a grown daughter but she can’t help me out as she is broke; she is trying to make it on her own after battling a drug and alcohol addiction for years! I actually have had to help her out by signing a lease so she could get her first apt. I have a grown son lives in Seattle; most my family lives in Birmingham, AL; my oldest moved to Seattle a few years ago; he is wanting me and my son to come stay with him and he would help me out. I really don’t want to live so far away from my daughter, sister, and nieces and nephew in Birmingham, AL but none of them have money to help me! So now I’m praying about what to do! I just need an answer from God about how to start my life over at 56 years old with a lot of health issues. My name is ###, I live in ###, thank you for your prayers.
