Becoming

Amy was struggling, in every way you could imagin. Yes she had two beautiful children, the house, the car, the husband but she was sick of trying to keep everything together at her expense. You see, despite job changes to bring more money into the home they were in the s**t. Her husband had an addiction, a gambling addiction and he just wouldn't stop. Month on month she would try to work with him to improve things but it was just too much. Amy knew she had to do something when the lies started mounting up. It got so bad while on vacation he accused a maid of taking money (which they hadn't) to claim the cash from the hotel and then made a claim on their travel insurance. On many occasions he had taken money from her and blamed it on the children. Amy was beginning to doubt her sanity with all the lies and heartache when he over promised and under delivered. Amy was desperate! She knew if things carried on as they were the house she loved and worked hard to get would be taken from them. Enough was enough. Amy gave him an ultimatum, get help or we are done! Of course he started the process and credit to him it was going well, for four weeks. She knew deep down he would do this and that's why she warned him she would be done with their relationship. She never said anything she didn't mean to go through with! In her eyes she wasn't important enough to him to stop. She knew how addiction worked but after years of trying to help him she felt like this was the final insult. It wasn't only that he was risking the home they had built for their children, it was the absence, the lies the deciept. Enough was enough!