59 Women Share The Moment They Realized Loving Their Husband Wasn’t Enough To Stay

My ex husband claimed he was a “bad boy” and all that jazz and then one night something came crashing down in our house and instead of grabbing his bad boy pewpew to go see what was happening; I thought we were being robbed, he grabbed the covers and slid under them shaking.

I grabbed a baseball bat and went and investigated myself. A picture fell off the wall and crashed the stuff on the table under it. I cleaned it up. He was still in bed. Didn’t come out once to ask what it was. I left him shortly after this. This was just the straw moment. Many things like this had happened.

My car was run off the road and when I called my ex he asked if the car was all right. Got to my office and immediately called a lawyer.

Dropped two cups of boiling hot tea on myself in a cafe and he continued with his phone call conversation. People came running to ask me if I was alright, divorce is pending.

We weren’t married but when I was in labor with our daughter my contractions were so bad and painful I was having diarrhea bc I couldn’t help it. Instead of helping me he just couldn’t stop saying how gross and disgusting it was that it happened. I got up out of the bed mid contraction and helped myself. That’s when I knew.

This reminds me of when I finally made the decision to divorce.. the final straw was when hurricane Maria came to Florida.. I was so scared, preparing my home, taking our dogs to shelters, trying to decide to evacuate or not.. I had a baby. I really thought I was going to lose my home.. as I was packing our stuff, my babies stuff, making sure everything in the home secured.. the only thing he was worry about and the only thing he grabbed as we were leaving to the shelter was his TV and his PlayStation!!!!! I looked around.. all my neighbors.. men.. were taking their wives and kids out to safe, their were all working making sure their houses were prepared for impact, they were helping others … and my loser husband was worry about a PlayStation!!! It was so embarrassing!! … after there experience I finally filed for divorce.. I just couldn’t deal with that Pete Pan anymore!! Best decision ever!!!

After my second was born I was struggling with ppd and baby’s sleep schedule was off. He was awake all night for months. I was exhausted. One night was especially bad when he woke up multiple times and I was sobbing for help and had the audacity to ask him to get up with the baby at 4 am so I could sleep. His response was ‘I can’t I have to work tomorrow’ that was the nail in the coffin. It took me 3 years to get the pieces together and to be financially stable enough to leave but I did in 2018. I just remarried the love of my life. I’m so happy.

I bled too much after my son was born and I was in the OR longer than anticipated....he left with his family to get something to eat. When I was brought to my room I was completely alone.

We took a trip to a national park and I thought “please universe, if he isn’t for me give me a sign…” a couple of hours later he is driving my car and goes into a HUGE pothole and we got a flat tyre. We stopped in the middle of nowhere and he goes “I have no idea what to do” while standing there, so I changed the tyre pretty much by myself and when we get in the car again he said “I’m so glad you are my GF, any other woman would have broken up with me over this” and that’s when I realised, he was giving me NOTHING and he knew I would accept it…

My very first date after leaving my ex husband was at a restaurant/bar to see a live band. The man and I were standing at the bar to get a drink when a small fight broke out. He jumped BEHIND me and shrieked. You know what? I’m gonna go. Thanks.

I choked on food at dinner, managed to clear it but was still having trouble swallowing and was coughing and started to have a panic attack and managed to say "I'm so scared"... and he got up from the table where he had been looking at me like went and sat on the couch and turned the TV on... while I was still struggling to clear my airway.
I didn't leave for another year.

We got swarmed by yellow jackets while cleaning the yard. As I was running away I felt his hand try to grab my arm to run past me and he slipped and fell and that is the only reason he didn't push past me.

My ex and I were on a beach in St. Thomas. He saw a huge snake under my chair and ran about 20 feet away, then yelled back that there was a snake under my seat. Years later, I had surgery for ovarian cancer. During the discharge process from the hospital, we were told I couldn’t be left alone for 48 hours in case I started hemorrhaging. He brought me home and left to go buy a new car. He was gone for five hours.

I was sharing how devastating it still is that my sister was m******d by a serial k**ler years prior and the damage it did to my family. My ex said, "You just need to get over it". Needless to say, I immediately 'just got over' him!

One time it was my birthday, and I got pneumonia, I was bedridden, and my ex suddenly decided to fly several states away to visit his parents randomly. The next morning I had to take our three kids to school and I had to pull over several times during that 4 mile drive to breathe and cry. I had to drive myself to urgent care two times while he was gone because of the pneumonia.

A bear was running down the sidewalk (it was trying to get away from a ranger after it came into town because some nerd put out their trash far too early with no proper lid) Anyway, he took off down the sidewalk yelling "run" (I know you're not supposed to run from bears now, we were buzzed and weren't aware til after) I caught up to him in the store he went into and I said "hah! you left me!" and he said "well you have more meat on you" and gestured to my body.

Mine was, on our first date, we were playing chasing each other in a park at night. And i had this gut wrenching feeling to look back while running. His smile and eyes were not it, they looked predatory. Idk man my heart was sinking and i just kept running faster and hid somewhere. He kept calling saying "come out baby girl" something along those lines. I didn't come out till dawn. I asked some passing stranger to call a cab to my mom's house and ghosted him. 3 months later i found out he was arrested for m****r and sa. I'll never forget that day, it made me never doubt my intuition.

I was 9 months pregnant and started to go into labor at midnight. He said he was gonna go back to sleep because he was gonna be tired, so he wanted to make sure HE was rested up, as my contractions were getting stronger. he told me to wake him up when the baby was coming.

My car smashed into the side of a mountain at 55mph. After 911 was auto-dialed, I called him to let him know the ambulance was coming to take me to the ER. 8.5 hours later, he hadn’t called to check on me once, hadn’t come to be with me, didn’t handle any of the car or insurance stuff, and wouldn’t answer my calls when I was being discharged. The hospital called in a social worker and tried ordering an uber for me home (45 mins away).

My ex had his daughter over for the weekend, on Saturday night we woke up to all our fire alarms screaming. He grabbed his phone, put his trainers and jacket on and grabbed his motorbike keys and ran outside. I grabbed his not even 2 year old daughter, her winter sleep suit a blanket and his dog. I was still in my shorts and Tshirt. No shoes, nothing. It was minus 7 Celsius (19 Fahrenheit) thankfully our home want on fire but it filled with smoke. It was the neighbour downstairs. He fell asleep drunk and burnt his kitchen down. I had to phone for the fire brigade too, while consoling his daughter. It took hours to air the house out of smoke, it stank for weeks afterwards. I never looked at him the same after that.