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10 Jul 2010 @ 12:25 PM
MEvsADD Join Date: Wed 7th Jul 2010
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He's coming home...and wants to leave me.

Hubby is coming home after being overseas. He sent me an email last week about getting separated then "recalled" the message 6 minutes later. (He thought about it and figured it wasn't best to do it that way...) Anyway, he was able to call today and again that is his intent. We have two kids. He has been away for 6 months and before that he had been coming home only on weekends because the base was too far away to come home daily that was for about 2 years. Our youngest is 4! He hasn't even had much time to "be a family" with his family together. I am very frustrated. The hubby is tired of my job hopping and messing up the finances. I am tired of him shutting me out, putting me down(when annoyed and frustrated) and not wanting to understand the ADD thing. I know that he has made sacrifices for our family and my "problem" has hurt us. I am LIVID that he doesn't get that his past "indiscrections" that we'd "worked through" have built major road blocks in repairing our lives. I took on a new job because the one I had I was about to lose... I am not too happy with this one but have not much of a choice. Can't tell him that! Every mistake I make is like driving a nail in my coffin. Wanted to go away as a family for a vacation and have the opportunity to do so at no charge - he refuses to go. I tell him how much the kids are looking forward for us to do something as a family and he tells me "not to use the kids". I am going to suggest that he take the vacation with the kids so they can have some time with him. He has to be there in order to receive the vacation so I figure that would be best. I guess I didn't' have a question or there's really no advice to give on this one. I just needed to vent.

Thanks all!

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2 Aug 2010 @ 12:11 AM Reply # 1
PoppetMom Join Date: Sun 1st Aug 2010
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I can relate...

to so much of your post, even the part about the vacation. I'm assuming your husband is in the military. This is only my opinion, but how awful for him to tell you that he wanted to separate via email while overseas. Ugh. Then he "took" it back- I suppose that's typical ADD behavior? I am going through a similar situation right now. My husband's actually been home from Iraq for 3 years and his ADD is just getting worse. The VA says he's a candidate for PTSD treatment but my husband wants nothing to do with it. His psychiatrist put him on Adderall and it was a total mess. He picks at his fingers occasionally and when he was on that medicine he almost tore all the skin off his fingers, they were so raw. Even my small children were applying bandaids for him. Then his sex addiction kicked in while on those meds and he started getting online looking up all kinds of "hook up" sites- like 15 sites in one day with something like 50 replies to his inquiries He didn't even hide that- he left his email right up on our shared computer Then when I told him not to come home until he decided that his need for our family was greater than his need for his compulsions, he asked for a divorce (even after he stopped the Adderall). Anyway, I guess I just needed to vent too. But I did want to thank you for your support of a military spouse- but then again, I'm just assuming that. Sorry- I could be wrong. I wish you the best of luck.

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