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I want to cut all links with my cruel ‘wife’

She tormented me emotionally and was physically abusive to the children. 

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What you need to know:

  • I fear that something terrible may happen to one of us that can make someone serve a lengthy sentence behind bars.
  • Please help, it’s urgent.

Hi Eric,
I’ve been married to a woman since March 2018 although we have never formalised the union. It is my second marriage as I separated from my first wife in 2014 due to her adultery. I have custody of our three children. 
My second wife was good to my children in the beginning, and we even built a house together, but she later became a monster. She tormented me emotionally and was physically abusive to the children. I later took the children away from her, as she had been living with them in our upcountry home. She started selling things in the house but ran away when I discovered what she was doing. 
She gave birth to our second child last a few months ago after the first one died last year. Now she has started tormenting me with texts threatening to bring the infant and dump her here. So, to make it simple, I don’t want this woman in my life again. What can I do to stop her from meddling with my life again? I’m ready to provide for the baby, but I don’t want to see the woman anywhere near me. I fear that something terrible may happen to one of us that can make someone serve a lengthy sentence behind bars. Please help, it’s urgent.

Dear Reader, 
Emotional and physical pain besides the uncertainty of a future in marriage cannot be described any better than the text of your communication. We can only imagine your predicament, first as a man: and second as a father. Still, we can never understand the magnitude of what you are experiencing.