Everyone involved in this story is long gone....A guy I knew from work, good guy everybody liked him from my fathers generation.
I knew he was divorced, in fact his ex was the sister of another guy in the gang
So this guy tells me one day when we all got to talking he had to get out of the house and eventually got divorced because it got to the point he he was afraid to go to sleep when his wife was home
He told me one time she threw a bunch of tacks in the bed hoping he'd get stuck, was no joke he didn't trust her and he had to get out asap which he did
By the time he told this story she had passed away although he never said how
Only after he retired and moved away did I find the exact story.
He played around and I guess she suspected it. This incident happened in the late fifties or early sixties
They had a two year old girl.....The baby was sick and getting sicker by the day.....Had taken the child to the doctors but one night she developed a high fever......They had one car and this guy was at the bowling alley, I guess it never occurred to him to stay home with his wife and sick child or even call and check in and see how his daughter was doing
So his wife tries to no avail to contact him at the bowling alley, she couldn't find him and the person who answered the phone at the bowling alley couldn't find him either
Im unsure what happened after that but by by the time they got that child to the hospital she was critical and she died during the night
This guys wife went off the deep end I guess, I was told by a woman I know that the wife never recovered, blamed her husband.....She started to drink and became a alcoholic and thats what she died of
Now this guy who I thought was such a great guy, I knew he had a child that died but he never told me any of this and its no wonder why
I have no idea if he carried any guilt but if he did he didnt show it.
Of course there is no justification for destroying property of your spouse or the other way around and of course that goes for physical alterations
People sometimes go through difficult periods, be it physical or mental issues and true enough sometimes they are just self consumed lousy spoiled.
I would have never posted this thread had I been the OP, asking what would you have done as if he needs to be told what to do.....but now he has spilled his personal life onto a car forum and I hope he is happy his wife is being called a "*****".
Whatever his wife is, id think he'd be better served to keep this out of a car forum and getting some professional help
