You can prepare for it all you like but when it happens it knocks the wind out of your sail.
I feel depressed, anxious and generally deflated, but I still have to go to work tomorrow and I still need to look after 5 kids. It drives you mad how selfish they are!
Leaving the kids in my opinion is inexcusable, we can try and be as empathetic as we like about it being an illness but there has to be consequences to their actions otherwise he will just get worse!
I have never gone two days without him ever contacting me before, in the past it was always something, whether it be to ask if the kids were ok, to say sorry or to dish out abuse. This time nothing!
I don’t know why I’m so bothered when he’s clearly not thinking of anyone but himself.
If I do manage to build myself up after this I don’t ever see a way back for us. That’s a whole new emotion to deal with (acceptance).