Ahh..see, in that second line where you wrote, “ even counseling?”
That’s something he just wouldn’t do. I asked far more than once or twice.
Eventually, I sought counseling for myself, and many of my sessions began with, “He’s such a great husband and father…”
It took months, more than a year, to begin to unwrap that he really wasn’t.
He was self-centered, narcissistic, and revealed why even today, more than five years after our divorce, I am financially stable but single and content, while he has paired up with a girlfriend to keep by his side but very much struggles with money.