Hello all. I need your help. I currently live in South Florida in the Ft Lauderdale area. I am a 57 year old male married to a Brazilian Woman. I also have a 5 year old autistic daughter.

Where do I start…. I met my wife while living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Everything was fine until she got pregnant with our daughter. We moved to South Florida in 2019 and my Daughter was born a month later.

Immediately after my daughter was born she changed, became depressed. It got progressively worse to the point where she started getting violent with me. I had to call the police several times on her. It also documented by the police where I used to live in 2019 to 2022.

In 2022 I moved to a different area in Broward County and I am still there today. During that time she got violent with me and called the Broward County Sheriff on me saying that I hit her. I never put my hands on her and I spent 3 days in the Broward County Jail in Ft Lauderdale.

She is mentally unstable, prone to rambling on for hours on end, yelling and screaming at me. Sometimes it’s for an hour, sometimes it lasts for hours. She once went on and on for 5 hours, from 10pm to 3am the next day. She doesn’t accept that she is wrong and doesn’t apologize.

She is constantly trying to keep me from my family. They do not want to know anything about her, they think she is mentally ill. And they are right. I do think my wife is mentally ill and I’ve asked her several times to get help. She won’t do it. In Brazilian culture, if you go see a psychiatrist, psychologist or therapist it means you are crazy.

At one point it got so bad that I thought it was me. So I went to see a psychiatrist and therapist. I also had myself psychologically tested for intelligence, autism, depression and mental illness. They interviewed me, and sent me to a neurologist. Everything came back normal and above average in intelligence, memory and communication. They saw no signs of autism or depression.

The reason I had myself tested is because my wife was constantly calling me stupid and slow. I work in IT, if I were stupid and slow I wouldn’t have that job. She also was calling me autistic and blamed me for my daughter being autistic. I even had myself genetically tested for autism. It all came back normal.

Now to the present day. Yesterday my wife flew off the handle and started hitting me. She marked my face with scratches. I took pictures. Today my wife asked me to cook her something, I gave her a look of “are you joking after what happened?” She literally won’t apologize. She blames and says I don’t respect her and that I undermine her, whatever that means. That was around 6:45pm, it is now 10:20pm as I am writing this and she still is rambling on.

From my perspective and observations is that my wife suffers from extreme narcissism bordering on schizophrenia. Probably bipolar disorder and depression.

I have decided that I need to get divorced and fight for full custody of my daughter. I feel that my daughter is endangered because my wife doesn’t let my daughter be independent and grow. She lets our daughter sleep in our bed, she doesn’t sleep in her own bed. Doesn’t teach our daughter how to dress herself. She dresses her constantly. Carries her and doesn’t allow her to walk to the door.

My daughter’s neurologist, ABA BCBA therapist and ESE director from her grade school all say the same thing, that my wife is creating a monster. They also told her to seek help for herself. It falls on deaf ears.

That’s it. Does anyone know a really good lawyer to help me with this situation? Some men’s groups in the Broward County area of Florida?

BTW guys, stay safe with this coming hurricane. I heard it has upped to a category 5. I am getting ready here as well. God bless.