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Originally Posted by kane
I'm not so sure she will be for much longer. There are two major things standing in the way. First, when the boy is not around their family life is great. Both parents get along and both the daughters do fine. The boy is the rotten apple in the bunch. My brother is hoping if he is out of the picture and not living with them then it will make things better. Second, if they get divorced my brother will get fucked bad because he has nice pension from his job that she will get half of. She never works so he will have to pay spousal support and it would just be an ugly mess. They have gone through a lot together that you could write a book about and about 90% of is centered around the boy being an asshat.
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I think what they will find out is if the mother had stopped babying the boy he would have had a chance. She will always second guess what she could have done better. Their relationship will never be what he always wanted... but then most aren't. However, it won't be anywhere near what he thinks is acceptable either. And again, however, he is not much different than the mom. She babies the son. He babies the mother.
They should seriously go to some kind of therapy or he is going to find out that removing the son from the equation isn't going give their lives the right answer. It will always be off by one.