Beth (Caller)

Um, and then like a year and a half ago, around November, December, he started having panic attacks and paranoia.

Um,

One morning, a couple of days, he was really upset with me, came through the kitchen in the morning and basically said, if you ever betray me, it'll be the last thing you do.

And that kind of set a tone for the next seven, eight months.

He would have these paranoia episodes, which now I believe was related to the marijuana use and underlying mental health issues.

He would really mistreat me in front of the kids, just constantly.

speaking to me kind of disrespectfully and degrading.

And he would get rageful towards me for a few days while he was in this, like, I call it an episode.

He would sleep on the couch and accuse me of cheating.

He would like, I would come out of the shower and he'd be waiting for me on our bed.

Like, okay, I'm ready to listen.

I'm not going to talk.

It's up to you to talk.

And like, basically just try to like, silence me out to admit to cheating.

And I wasn't.

And then in June of last year, he actually revealed to me, he was kind of trying to wean off of their marijuana and revealed to me that he had actually been unfaithful to me for about 18 months.

But he already had like the solutions of all the things he was going to do and why it happened.

And it was the mental health and it was the marijuana and,

And so I kind of went into a freeze state, I think.

Like, I didn't really cry much.