I used to get walked all over. I was a doormat. Fuck that, I was the dust that got swept under the doormat. Until I went to court.

I found out who my wife of 15 years really was just a few months prior to that in a long confession that left me suicidal. It was absolutely unbelievable. Really, how could someone who I gave everything to be so different. But then the threats of, "if you don't do X, Y, or Z, I'll claim abuse and rape." I rolled, I didn't really have a choice. I didn't have anything on her exploits, and she had pictures of a broken chair and a hole in a wall. So what if I never hit her, perception is reality.

Anyway, away with the details. Two months ago, she gets a hair up her ass and starts texting me a book of complaints. Blah, blah, "for the kids". You see, that's how she operates, I leave her alone when she has the kids, but then when I pick them up every other weekend, she won't stop texting me about nonsense. How I have to do this or that, even though that I don't have the money for it. (What are you spending the child support on?)

A couple weeks after that, after a different weekend with my kids, Monday morning comes around. I drop one kid off at school, and take the other one back to his mother (different grades/school, different start times). I say goodbye and she walks up to me, "I have to tell you something."

Oh, here we go, I've been ignoring her texts, not even reading them, and now she's gonna lay into me here with my kid within earshot playing with a new puppy she got a week ago.

I'm standing there with my car running, door open between us and one foot in the car and she says, "I'm sorry."

I pause, thinking. My mind is reeling from all the manipulation techniques that I've read about and have realized from her.

She attempted to continue, "for ..."

I stuck my finger right in her face, pointing at her (she hates this), and say, "Bullshit." I get in my car and drive off.

No, you don't get to treat me like you did for so long, lie to me our entire marriage, and say you are sorry. Bye.

So, I'd like to say thank you TRP for your massive amount of knowledge that you share. Without you I would have never done that and probably listened to her and offered her my forgiveness. But, fuck that, she doesn't deserve it.