Been fighting constantly with the wife for months now over every little thing, been going to marriage counseling and that doesn't seem to be helping. Her and the counselor exchange emails back and fourth with our arguments and it almost seems as if she is taking sides without hearing anything from me. I've had to interrupt sessions after we've talked 50 minutes about some issue she is having with me just so I can try to fit whatever my issues are in the last 10 minutes of the session.

Finally had enough of it, after two weeks of merely living together and only communicating with each other when it had to deal with our daughter. She went to put our daughter to bed Friday night, I left a note on the coffee table that just said "I want to separate" and went to pick up some dinner like I have normally done as we don't eat together anymore.

Got back from dinner, her and my daughter were gone. She has done this before and during arguments and has gone to her parents house about 30 minutes away. I try multiple times to get in touch with her Saturday through phone calls and text messages, calling her parents, her parents cell phones.. no answer or reply from any of them.

I had tickets to the county fair I had bought months before and it was planned for me to take our daughter to the fair while my wife had a bridal shower to attend. Since she wasn't answering any text messages, I went to the location of the bridal shower and sat in my car parked across the street to see if I could get a chance to speak to her and see my daughter on their way out.

Instead, my wife's father showed up with the police. Spoke with the police, explained the situation, they went inside to talk to my wife, came back out, and basically told me there was nothing they could do.

How can it be fair for my wife to remove our three year old child from the home, and I have no say in it? This is so ridiculous to me. Further attempts to communicate with her have gone unanswered. It's now been 3 days since I've seen my daughter, and now I'm even beginning to wonder if she will be cold enough to even keep her from me this weekend for Father's Day.

I'm so torn up over things right now. I understand we have or issues, but to put our daughter in the middle of all of this is so unfair to her.

Edit - Posted an update.. I get to see my daughter tonight!