Advice: Should I (32 m) Divorce My Video Game Addicted Wife?

My husbands ex wife was like that. Then they had kids. She neglected the kids to play video games. So even though he worked and she didn't he had to pay for them to be in day care because they weren't safe with her home. One was found eating his own feces because she never changed or fed him for ten hours and the the other was caught by a neighbor when he fell out the second story window.

No amount of couples counseling or therapy worked. My husband attended couples therapy alone in hopes she might join him eventually. She continually refused and insisted there was nothing wrong with her. She would fly into rages and be physically violent towards him if he implied she was depressed or needed therapy of some sort. It was so bad his best friend insisted on photographing his injuries. She also smashed hundreds of dollars worth of his collectibles when he suggested she cut back on playing WOW.

Instead of working on herself or going to therapy, she had an emotional affair with a guy in her game. Then one day announced she was taking the kids and going to live with this guy she never met in person across the country, forcing my husband to scramble to afford to follow as well.

She married the new guy two weeks after their divorce finalized. She has since gotten divorced again (started another online affair, this time with a guy in another country) and attempted to get her own place. She lost her job about six months in and will be evicted from her apartment shortly.

She still believes there is nothing wrong with her. She thinks everyone else is unfair and unhelpful and too hard on her. She has said more than once that it's unfair everyone makes her feel bad about who she is. She goes on and on about how she deserves love and happiness but doesn't seem to give a shit about anyone else being happy or feeling loved.

She honestly thought she could surrender custody of the kids and still receive child support to live off of rather than work. When she realized that wasn't an option she immediately married her new boyfriend. She divorced him after he supported her while she went back to college (5th times a charm I guess, she did finally graduate). As soon as she had her degree she was trolling the Internet looking for husband #3. She's now taking about marrying the English guy so she can pursue a PhD overseas, I assume on the newest victim's dime. That's how entitled she is. She's a social vampire who sucks the life energy and money out of everyone unfortunate enough to be around her.

If this sounds like your wife, run, there is no fixing this.

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