Wife files for divorce and wants full custody. I am a great dad. Coach, volunteer at school doing homework and making lunches and playing with them and supporting them and want to be around them and will Do anything for 50%. Think my lawyer is good but now second guessing.

Wife’s family has a mountain house and takes the kids there and now I am not permitted to see them alone. She is controlling this situation and I am really scared.

We haven’t told the kids about divorce but hey must know something is up. Feel terrible.

How can I get through this? I know I will likely get 50%, but she is not being a good player.

It’s ok to divorce. It’s ok to split money and assets. It’s not ok to try to take the kids away.

She has been stay st home for 10 years and has prevented me from fully being a dad. She does bedtime with kids each night and now they are so engrained in her.

Now the kids are so used to her and her family it’s gonna be hard. And now she has lawyered up. It’s the worst scenario possible.

Advice? Kids are 10 and 7. I am just scared and willed with anxiety, can’t sleep and hard to focus on anything else.