Wife left this Friday....

[tomcat24m]

My wife has a short temper, especially with my daughter. She snaps at her for the smallest things such as getting into the fridge. A few days ago she slapped my daughter. According to her it was not hard, but I was not there. I asked her why, she said, "because she was being a little B---- and not listening". My daughter is 4 years old. we came to the decision when she was 1 not to use capitol punishment.

my response to this was to start telling her when she is being short tempered. This of course pissed her off even more.
On Thurs. I come home from work and she shows me a broken Shrek DVD and say's "it's your fault your daughter broke this and you need to pay for a new one" I said no. DVD's are going out of phase plus we have Netflix. so there is no point. She flipped out.

The next day she was yelling about the same thing when I got home. I was not budging. This was the one thing I was not going to back down from. I kept saying "We have a kid, we should expect s--- to be broken. It's not right to yell and scream and even hit her for things that don't really matter" So at this point my wife grabs my Fallout 3 PS3 video game. (I love that game) she said "fine ill just give her this to play with. we will see if you care then"

I took the game from her, and broke it in half.

After that she started actually hitting me. I stood there. telling her "my daughter is more important that all of this crap."
Finally after i saw she was not going to calm down, I told her she needed to leave. She would not. I tried to forcibly get her out of the house, but stopped the moment I realized I couldn't do it without hurting her. So I went into my daughter's room with the laptop and watched netflix with her while my wife was freaking out and packing her s---.

In the end, she took my girl. I could not take her without getting violent, and I cannot afford legal action. (or daycare) She went to her mother's house though, which makes me think at least she will be safe.
She took the PlayStation 3 (left the cables), Wii (left the cables), PlayStation 2 games, TV power cord, TV VGA cable.

I'm left with a useless TV, PS2 with no games, No kid, and my laptop. Went the whole weekend...

B----...

[megan2013 (deleted)]

`I don't think a relationship is healthy when verbal and physical abuse is involved especially when children are included, I totally get why you feel you should stay, maybe your saying to yourself your wife will stop, have you considered counselling maybe just for her to deal with her anger?