So in a nutshell I met my partner in 2021, moved in with him in 2022, got pregnant in 2023 and had our gorgeous baby boy in Feb 2024.
My partner had got diagnosed with cancer in 2022 and had since undergone two rounds of chemotherapy and two operations. He's self employed so the responsibility of providing for our family has always fallen almost entirely on me.
Then recently he got admitted into hospital after collapsing with an internal bleed. He spent a month in ICU and was on a ventilator in a coma for much of this time.
I had originally been told by his mum, who had been the first at the hospital, that he'd collapsed at work but I have now found out that actually he was with his "other" family. He has actually been seeing someone else for 5 years, therefore pre dating me, they live together with their dog and her 3 children from a previous relationship.
So how had he managed to keep both of us going without suspicion? The cancer was entirely faked, a ruse he kept up with both of us. He would tell her he didn't feel comfortable exposing her children to the reality of his condition so used it as the reason why he almost stopped living there as soon as I was on the scene. For me his various appointments allowed him to spend daytimes with her (shes WFH).
I'm angry and upset by his deceit but more than anything I'm disturbed by the mental state of this man and the lies he's felt so comfortable making. He's faked letters, he's faked prescription stickers, everything.
Is this a good enough case to take him to court for emotional abuse do you think?
I really don't want my son to be raised around that kind of man.