Wife threatening suicide...what can I do?

[bionic]

I kick myself for falling for that narcissistic gaming in the past with the NJ. PURE NARCISSISM.

Don't be a white knight. Don't fall on your sword. If she has the kids on her time and pulls this then heck yeah call the copperoos. If she is alone then farewell and adieu to the nj

[defaultuser]

I once left my wife sitting on the kitchen floor with a knife at her wrist threatening suicide and went to bed. I told her she should try and do it quietly because the kids were trying to sleep.

Stupid me for not calling the cops. One of the best things about this forum is that you can learn from other's mistakes instead of making them yourself.

[Fatheroffour]

I once gave mine a handgun and told her she was full of <poo>.

Stupid me, I had no idea women never shot themselves.


I should have given her a bag of Percocets and a bottle of vodka.

[lohe]

I once gave mine a handgun and told her she was full of <poo>.

Stupid me, I had no idea women never shot themselves.


I should have given her a bag of Percocets and a bottle of vodka.

Wow that's suicidal Fatheroffour! Mine woulda shot me!
Percocet and vodka is a good idea though!

[capslock]

Pretty common here huh? Many times my ex threatened as well. Would take knives all the time.
By far the creapiest for me was when I found her on a 5 gallon container with an extension cord very expertly rigged around the rafters and into a noose. For some reason the image of that one really creaped me out.
She made a pretty noose.

[Chris A]

A coworker of mine died Monday from a bullet to the back of the head from his ex. Pretty scary stuff.

[golfdad]

Women are much more likely to be non-violent.

Sleeping pills and vodka, for example.

My advice is to not try to solve this alone. Involve her support network and make her family aware and responsible for her well being. You need to have as much help here as possible. For your own well being, if she succeeds in suicide. It would be an awful burden to carry alone.

As much time as we spend trying to win battles against the NJ's. Do we really want our children to grow up without their mother?

Pars & Birdies

[Fatheroffour]

You can't make blanket statements. Many kids would be better off, alive even, without one or both of their parents.

There are some ill and/or evil people out there.

[BubbaGumpShrimp]

You can't make blanket statements. Many kids would be better off, alive even, without one or both of their parents.

There are some ill and/or evil people out there.

Yup. The MIL told NJ on a regular basis that she would be a better "cool Aunt" than a mother. That was the realization that I had to grasp to finally get myself to leave.

As much as I love her kids (leaving them is the only tough part of the separation for me)...they'd be better off without her. Knowing this...why would I stick around and spend the rest of my life with her?

[michael123]

So it sounds like this crap is pretty common. Annoys the < edited > out of me. I highly doubt she'd do anything and am sick of "talking her out of it". Thanks for the replies on all of your experiences.

One thing that hasn't really been addressed though, would recordings of her threatening suicide be trouble for her in a court custody battle?