My wife and I separated a month ago. She was my best friend and I loved her more than anything. I don’t know how to do this.

She was being hurtful and manipulative, threatening me with police. She has mental health issues and a lot of what she is doing can be explained by that, but I couldn’t take trying to help her to the best I could and then being made the enemy.

She initiated a “temporary separation” that she still expected me to financially support her to get me to “recognise my bad behaviour”. My lawyer sent the letter the other day and I feel lost.

She is the only one I wanted to talk to. She was my person. I just wanted a partner. I wanted us to be a team, but she always made it her against me.

I feel like I’ve lost everything and I don’t know if or how to be happy again. I’ve never posted on reddit before and I usually wouldn’t but I just don’t know what to do.