Financial Abuse/Emotional Abuse in long term marriage.

I really don’t think I have the energy to go too far back at this time. It makes me so sad and angry to look back on our long marriage and identify every micro-aggression my husband used to rip me and my two kids away from my family & my support in Texas. This was 4 years into our marriage and my second child was only 6 months old. We never spoke about moving away. Ever. I resisted moving anywhere for so long until he came home and announced that he had been offered a good job, a General Manager, in Chicago!! I hindsight, I feel so naive & stupid!! We moved to Chicago and I decided to make the best of our life and marriage and accept that I would take care of the kids and let him do what he needed to in his career. We always had joint accounts but we had little in them because the house we sold in Texas to a buyer NEVER made a mortgage payment!! The bank for closed in our house!!

From Chicago, we moved to Toronto, & 4 years later and 2 more kids, we went to Kansas City, MO for 5 years.
I can’t continue now but fast forward 21 years and he symphoned all our retirement and our house, the childrens life insurance policies from us all for his business. I have forged signatures and all of the fraud he committed up until the time I confronted him in 2016! Not feeling that he owed me anything, he leaves me and divorces me! In the meantime, I was left alone as a basket case unable to function & he took control of the narrative with my grown children and his family!!
That was seven years ago and I am alone in a crummy apartment and out of a job again because I never was able to go to school for a degree. I am almost 60 years old & though I have healed significantly over the last few years, I find myself questioning what is the point of living when I don’t know if I’ll be homeless at anytime. I have a deep faith and I wouldn’t be here without God’s grace but I am so tied & lonely.
Thank you, Erica, for writing your book!! God Bless you and your family!! I wish I could have had this information when I realized the monster I married!!