I’m a USMC combat vet with PTSD. After Honorable Discharge, I got a four year degree and an MBA and have been working for the government over 12 years now. My wife and I have been married 7 years and have marital issues for 6 years. We had issues with coparenting… especially co-sleeping since infancy. I got kicked out of my own bed due to snoring and went to sleep in the guest bedroom in a small couch. Snores too loud there and slept in the living couch for months after. When our son got a little older, I had set up a playpen in the living room. Then she complained about my two dogs giving our son allergies so I was forced to sleep down in the basement for the last 5 years in an air mattress. Intimacy became non existent. I worked… provided for the family while she spent all the time with our son barely leaving me any time to coparent. I became unhappy over the years… I thought to myself, why should I stay married… she doesn’t work or want to… he is now 6 years old and they still co-sleep. A month ago I told her I wanted a divorce because I felt like a roommate at this point and hardly get any coparenting rights to our son. He still drinks out of a baby milk bottle and I’m trying to reach him age appropriate things. After I mentioned divorce with joint custody, she threatened me that she would get full custody and use my PTSD issues against me. Am I the perfect person? No… I have my faults and have been verbally abusive … we’ve been verbally abusive to each other…. But most of the time I would just go to the basement and avoid confrontation. A few days later, she took our son out of school and took off… I got scared when he didn’t come home from the bus. My son has duel citizenship to another country that is non extradition. I went court to file an emergent hearing to seize his passport. That same day she showed up and put false allegations of domestic violence (harassment) restraining order against me to gain leverage for full custody. I’m broke because lawyer fees are crazy…. I couldn’t pay my mortgage this month. I’m in jeopardy of losing my job. I’ve built a career serving this nation only to get shafted. The state that I live in is a 50/50 custody state but I have no hope in getting what’s fair… a son needs a father figure in his life and despite having combat PRSD, it does not stop me from being a good father and teaching him age appropriate things. I want him to be more independent. But because of my wife’s overbearing parenting, he is not developing for success and survival in the future. He is afraid to go to the bathroom by himself. I lost love for wife a long time ago . I care for the wellbeing of our son’s future. She is doing everything to try and hurt me from seeing him. Any advice would help. TY