As you want the rest of your life.
I have read SO many posts recently about (mainly) women reciting the truly awful life they have with an awful man that this Christmas should be a time of reflection.
I was in a crap relationship (emotionally abusive) and one Christmas was the catalyst. I always had amazing Christmas' growing up and I was not going to let my 2 year old son have anything different, so when he ruined another Christmas that was it and I ended it in the new year.
Of course it was hard, no one ever said being a single mother was easy, but it was genuinely easier than tiptoeing around his moods.
Haven't set eyes on him for over 30 years and my (now eldest) son has no recollection of his early Christmas' just the lovely ones since.
I met and married a guy who was brilliant and my son calls him dad, and barely remembers his biological father.
Please, all you women out there think on this and make your future Christmas' a time of enjoyment for you all. There is help.
Start 2025 by being brave for your children.
Merry Christmas and a happy NEW year.