Money that she could have avoided of having to repaid if her ex-husband allowed her to report her income and job gain, but didn't because the freak wanted ALL of the money and threatened to beat her if she did report her job gain to SSA.
Not only that he had threatened to beat her, he already did beat her on MANY occasions and even locked her in the bedroom and took away her wheelchair so she couldn't get out.
His favorite part of beating is a metal rod on her left amputated leg stump. He even beat her while she was pregnant with her son.
He even molested his daughter while drunk (we don't know how many times he's done this and my step daughter still refuses to talk about it. My wife never knew this until she spilled the beans one day during an argument about house cleaning, it just came out all of sudden and she clammed up since then. All she said was "he molested me many times while he was drunk and while you were out working.")
I have a gadzillion stories about what my wife has told me he's done (and I wanted her to talk about it because I knew how messed up she is and wanted to help her and the best way to do it is to get it all out of her chest and she's improving emotionally and mentally a whole lot. Although it doesn't stop her nightmares entirely, but it has been reduced dramatically. I've tried the same thing with the kids, but they refuse to open up. Prolly because I'm not blood and a "stranger that entered into my wife's life." so they're pretty relunctlant with me. I even tried to get them to see counsolers, but they refused as well. They're adults now, out on their own and all we can do for them is pray for them and hope for the best.) but I'll leave it at that so you know what my wife has dealt with. I'm sure she's not alone in this world, especially for some here on this board.
One more thing, we finally had a "family meeting" last year on Thanksgiving. I suggested that since after the episode with my step son that we need to talk about family problems, get it out in the open. I suggested we do this every year on this holiday, gather in a circle and talk about ANYTHING we that we feel comfortable enough to talk about.
My step daughter opted out and sat outside in the front porch in the whole duration. But we're hoping she'll participate this coming Thanksgiving. They're asking for my step son to join us this year. I'm a little relunctlant because of his violent behavior. They assured me if he starts having a episode, they're will remove him personally and he won't be back in the following next year. I told them I will think about it. So the meeting went well and they had already known about my step daughter whom has been molested, she's staying with my wife's cousin and she is trying to work on her to open up. This will take time, I guess. My wife told me 2 weeks after the meeting even thought at first she wasn't thrilled with the idea, but told me she's glad we all did it and looks forward to this coming Thanksgiving. Ya know what? I'm gonna ask my sister and her family to come.
If that is, we get get this SSD crap straighten out first. I just hope we don't end up homeless. But I'm trying to stay away from that negative thinking.
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