Please tell me am was I wrong to leave my verbally abusive husband

I am confused, and I feel helpless in a very bad marriage. We have three grow, married children that my husband has been saying negative things about me to, that I did not know about while we were apart (I feel they should not be brought into our marital problems,) Since my husband shared things with our daughter, she was verbally abusive to me, but both sons have stay out of our problem., When my husband was verbally abusive to me in our newly purchased winter home in Florida, I told him I was going to leave, if things did not change,and he indicated that things weren't going to change, so I left and drove back to NY state alone,
The entire family says I am to blame now, and that I should not have left. Since then he came back to our home in new york state, and things are not getting better, but worse. I am feeling so much emotion pain, and do not know what I should do,should I just continue living in an abusive relationship. I don't see any options. .My husband is verbally abusive, and recently he let me share an article about verbal abuse with him, and he admitted that he is verbally abusive, and said he would get some professional help. Now weeks later, he says he's not willing to get help, and that I must get help, too because I am the reason for the problem. He can't understand why I feel so hurt, his thinks I should just get over this and move on.

Answered by Dr. Michael Ascher | No comments | Asked anonymously on May 5^th, 2012, 11:05 AM | Viewed 220 times