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Abusive violent alcohlic wife ... need help?

Im 64, white, sick, unemployed and now, flat broke. No transport. Now, no friends either. I feel trapped in what has now become a very dysfunctional marriage of 12 years. Simply put, I just don't know what to do! Need good advice. Dallas Texas. No kids. Im originally from Australia ... no way to just go home. Wife is the breadwinner.

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  • Jim
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    File for social security disability. Since you are a spouse of an American citizen, you have eligibility rights. It might amount to $800 a month.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    As I just said to the last moaning woman who wrote a similar story, play the victim or be an independent person in control of their own life. Watch the paraolympics and then stop whinging about how you are sick and go find work and then talk to the australian embassey and see if you can get a loan to get back to australia.

    you have lived there for 12 years but have no friends? This has nothing to do with your wife but rather to do with who you are, find out what she owns, copy bank accounts and start ciphering money and then apply for divorce and alimony.

  • jodie
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    1st is she ready to admitt that she has a problem and is she willing to try to quit drinking for herself because her life is unmanagable. Note not to keep you from leaving but because she realizes she probably has a problem with alcohol. There are treatment facilities and AA will help her find help if you take her to meetings (they are listed on the Internet/phonebook and a schedule is availabe at meetings Calling the number listed in the phonebood and call alanon for yourself.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I am sorry to hear of your situation.This one is tough. If you were a woman being abused you would have tons of resources but since you are a man you do not have the same.My best advice is to go to a church ask for help there.Talk to a pastor they might be able to help you.again I am so sorry to hear about your insinuation.

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  • 9 years ago

    Go back to Australia where u grew up and have your old friends you'll like it better there. And u don't even have enough money for a plane ticket?

  • 4 years ago

    Having understand for someones expertise has no longer something to do with them as a guy or woman. i could believe you approximately no longer watching his coach if my doing so could substitute something that he does even though it won't, his being on television has no longer something to do with why he's in a position and prepared to triumph over his spouse and had he no longer been on television he nonetheless could have overwhelmed her alongside with the certainty that he's no longer the only guy or woman in contact interior the coach and you suspect that all and sundry the different actors, writers, and manufacturers who do no longer beat their better halves could desire to be punished using fact of one prick? As a female i'm no longer condoning the movements of one guy with the help of watching a television coach that replaced into introduced approximately with the help of the imaginative and prescient and stressful artwork of 1000's of folk.

  • 9 years ago

    Find the nearest alanine meeting and go. Its for family and friends of alcoholics because you can't change her only yourself. Start saving money,hide it if you have to.

    Source(s): My ex was an alcoholic and it wasn't easy thats what first start me going to al-anon. Now I go for myself.
  • 9 years ago

    Enjoy life while she's at work. Play sleep when she is home. Rinse and repeat.

  • 9 years ago

    Get a lawyer, get half & get out of the marriage!

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