My name is Galyna Repko. I am 62, and I am going through a painful divorce now with, as it turned out, a covert narcissist. During my almost 25-year marriage I have been abused by a mentally sick person with Narcissistic Personality disorder. I did not realize that such people exist. My husband was a disabled veteran, with PTSD from a Vietnam War. After each abuse, emotional, physical or financial, he always would find a good argument to get my forgiveness. He would never take responsibility for what he did to me. He is 73. Recently, he filed for a divorce to find a new, fresh and shiny supply. He is targeting 30-Year-old women on online dating sites, both domestic and international. I accidentally saw what he was writing to those women, and I could not believe that I have spent almost 25 years of my life with a person I never knew well! The posts were horny, greedy, and lustful. I was very surprised and concerned because we had a dry marriage the last 20 years, as he complained he has issues after the agent orange effect. I tolerated everything, because I believed he had a good heart, and he will settle down with aging. My biggest mistake. He had no heart and no empathy at all. Before he filed a divorce, he was very angry and assaulted me day after day. His rage, hatred and meanings accompanied me all the time. However, he stabbed me in the back with the divorce paper. I realized that something was wrong in his behavior and started searching the internet. The Narcissist’s Handbook popped up to my attention. The behavioral pattern described in the book was exactly matching my husband’s behavior! After reading this book I lost the last hope that my husband will ever change for good. When aging, narcissists are getting much worse.
I was codependent on my husband, trusted and sympathized with him. Now I have to fight for my future because this person wants to completely destroy me. He would rather pay his lawyer than me. They want to cheat me on a settlement. If I were much younger, I would give up everything and walk away to avoid his toxicity. Unfortunately, I am not young anymore. I have no capacity and lifetime to start everything from scratch. I need a good lawyer, whom I cannot afford.
I am asking good people to help me. Thank you. paypal.me/GRepko