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« Latest by LC on March 22, 2026, 01:12:50 AM »
I’m listening…
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« Latest by AllieKat on March 21, 2026, 07:29:56 PM »
Im just rambling I need to vent! Im sad, mad, cheated, scared, worried all that and feel very alone. My daughter has been more on his side but because after he left and filed my wonderful mother decided to tell things I had rather stay quiet. Basically I am a liar! I was not honest with my daughter or husband about my ex and a pregnancy with him. I never felt the need to divulge my past relationship history to my daughter but I wasn’t completely honest with my husband either. I didn’t tell either of them dirty details of my leaving that ex (daughters bio dad) because I wasn’t proud of what I put up with or a lie I told. So he didn’t find out till my my disclosed it after he already filed. So that made mlc worse I feel snd him hate me. And my daughter doesn’t trust me. Fast forward so the almost 21 mths hes been gone 18 of those shes been distant with me. I basically lost my spouse and her around same time. Shes only texting me now because he passed. But she has told me she thinks she needs to have his remains till they go to cemetery because he would of wanted it that way. She said you were all going through a divorce and he was ready and wanting it to be over!!
From that point I get it but she cant see he was going through a crisis! At first yes she was shocked and even was telling me he was eating fruit something he hated but than when my mom told her my past all things shifted whatever behavior he was doing was looked past because i was bigger villain. If told her he was in crisis she would just say “whatever he seems fine you haven’t even talked to him in all these months” so him getting AP 2 mths ago she just sees as hes happy finally happy after leaving!! There isn’t anything i can do to try to have her see it my way hes gone! No closure or answers. But under her believing he was done and waiting for divorce I understand why she would want possession of everything. It just hard because If I say no it further destroys our relationship which is fragile if i give them to her I miss out on what I think is closure for me to have the ashes till tbey go to cemetery. I don’t think splitting them is an option as she wants control over all his stuff.
I was lonely before missing him but i lived off of hope he'd wake up and come back sometime. Sorry for ramblings I need to vent a d don’t have anyone to vent to. Only one of his friends even called to express he was sorry to me. I suppose because everyone knew he was divorcing me. Plus he vented pretty nasty about me
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« Latest by MadLuv on March 21, 2026, 07:24:17 PM »
Thank you reinventing. So true. I am trying to appreciate every moment now. I hope my children and grandchildren can truly come to terms and accept that their fathers actions and disappearance is not a reflection of anything they did or deserved. I also can understand the need to escape, but how far do you have to escape not only in distance but in your own mind to forget your own children. To me that in the end is the answer to where he is and that they truly are better off right now that he has disappeared. He is not capable as he is of being a father.
My grandson is due first week in May and looking forward to another new light coming in out lives!!
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« Latest by LC on March 21, 2026, 11:56:32 AM »
(((((((((((((Allie))))))))))))))!
There are no words. I am crying with you as I write this.
One thought occurred to me is to make sure to tell your Mortgage company what happened, they will probably work with you, given your circumstances.
I’m praying for you 🤲
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« Latest by Treasur on March 21, 2026, 12:30:54 AM »
I am very sorry for your loss, Allie, for you and your daughter. I imagine that you must be in a state of complete shock and I would echo what others have said about taking one day at a time. And to get some support if you feel able as you navigate what will be a complicated set of feelings. It will take some time but it will not always feel exactly how it does today. Imho grief sort of twists and turns and evolves as it goes.
If it is any small comfort at all, your questions are normal and understandable but many of us here - even the few who eventually reconciled - rarely get answers. I suppose we sort of find a way to sift through them, find our own answers and our own way of making sense of both the good and bad in our relationship with another human whose mind we can’t read. But this is a big shocking awful thing to have happened and I am so very sorry.
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« Latest by marvin4242 on March 20, 2026, 02:57:50 PM »
I am so sorry to hear, this has to be shocking at so many levels. Even before the MLC, before having to deal with divorce it is the shock of the sudden loss, even if he was not immediately in your life.
Please right now just be very gentle and kind to yourself, there is so much going on. You don't have to figure anything out right now, you just have to get through the shock and get all the support you can get from friends and family. A lot of things may come back up, as you asked yourself questioning what happened, why, you may even feel you are going through all this all over again.
Just try to get through the next few days. Can you get some mental health professiona support to try to get some footing?
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« Latest by JohnnyBravo on March 20, 2026, 02:36:47 PM »
So sorry to hear about this, Allie. I can only echo Ursa's words and support. Don't avoid grieving, but maybe having specific tasks to focus on will help get you through.
(((hugs))) too.
JB
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« Latest by AllieKat on March 20, 2026, 10:58:28 AM »
Its terrible I will never have answers, wont get chance to reconcile or talk to him and everything i know of lately was he was happy with new person. Now im doubting mlc and everything only thing is we will remain married not divorced! Its so sad and he was all alone
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« Latest by UrsaMajor on March 20, 2026, 06:54:50 AM »
I don't think that there is much advice that one can give you in this situation - just comfort and support. This is a situation that I have (in all the time I have been here on HS) yet to come across that the Mid-Lifer is killed while in the middle of the Crisis. Some have gotten ill and passed on but an accident like this? There are more than a few anecdotes about MLC'ers driving like maniacs and having accidents but I don't recall one where the Midlifer was killed.
If there is ANY advice that I could offer, it would be to get advice from a legal professional ASAP. Since the divorce (as I understand it) was not yet final, you are technically still married and the rights you (and your daughter) have to any inheritance/insurance/etc., will need to be clarified like yesterday. His AP may have some claims to things assuming that the Mid-Lifer actually made specific arrangements but, knowing the usual trajectory of the Crisis, that is not very likely. Any documentation (wills, deeds, etc.) are likely to be very useful to you
I am sorry that your daughter's dad has been ripped out of her life in such an abrupt way and I am sorry that you may now find yourself having to make funeral arrangements and all that kind of stuff as the "next of kin."
{{{{{{{{HUG}}}}}}}}
UM
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« Latest by AllieKat on March 19, 2026, 10:15:33 PM »
I have not wrote recently! But today I am. My mlcer passed away today at 46 in a car accident on the way to see AP.
I am numb because he wouldn’t talk to me since he left and was going through with divorce! It was like I meant nothing. Two months ago he got a AP! A single mom of 3 and divorced and 10 years younger. I took that so hard but knew it so common but wasn’t sure if it 19 mths after leaving was still AP? I still figured he was in MLC but now I wonder not that it matters because hes gone and I will never get answers. AP knew before me apparently because she was tracking him on find my iPhone shocked that he did that 2 mths in. But 🤷🏻♀️ He was speeding and hit tractor trailer. My daughter is devasted too as she just talked to him for an hour. And he apparently sounded very happy and was excited about his new gf. I am so numb because Ive been grieving him for almost 2 years since he left so its hard to even acknowledge hes gone gone! Our divorce wasnt final so my praying it would not happen has come true but at losing him all over again! I need advice, or something.
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