I am just wanting advice on what to expect really.
Been married for 5 years, no children. DH had a bad manic episode 18 months ago and has been diagnosed with bipolar. Before this he had begun to change and I had started to feel differently about him. We have gone from a couple that enjoyed our time together to doing nothing together. He doesn't want to do anything really, he doesn't work and the medication keeps him asleep for around 12 hours, once up all he wants to do is watch politics. He drinks a lot and sometimes i'll get up in the morning to go to work and he is still up drinking watching politics. It's just not want I want from a marriage. I have a fairly active social life with friends thank god or I would go mad.
My DH is a good man, never unkind, I have just fallen out of love with him and think it's time to separate. I realise at some point one of us will file for divorce and I really don't know what to expect, is there such a thing as a straight forward 50/50 split. We have two properties, one we rent so we would share profit from that, but we have spoke about separating before and although you can never be sure I believe I will stay in the house that we live in and buy him out. He has a pension that I wouldn't want to touch, he paid in to it for years so don't feel i have any right to any of it, I have a few little pensions from companies I have left which I am currently looking at transferring out of and investing the money to work better for me, would he have a right to any of it?
Also out of interest what does stbex stand for ;-)