Spouse is an animal hoarder up-date. 1 . 5 years afterwards

Some of you may remember my post venting plus looking for advise on what to do when it comes to an extreme animal hoarding circumstance with my wife. Dozens of chickens residing in the home and a selection of animals roaming outside of cages in the home, feces and a widespread mice infestation.

After posting, I sought therapy and started getting my bearings straightened out.

In the midst of establishing firm boundaries and starting the work to clean up virtually 2 tons of chicken clips, sand and pine scraps and resolving the rodent problem a call in order to CPS was made by a 3rd party and an investigation ensued.

Believe it or not by that time, much of the situation was resolved, wildlife rehomed, home cleaned in addition to sanitized. Nothing came belonging to the cps investigation and it was basically pretty quickly closed outside. However the relationship was essentially permanently damaged as my lady continued to deny the matter was out of hand. Deep bitterness developed towards each other.

Swift forward nearly 12 months not to mention my wife requested a divorce. People are now separated awaiting the legal divorce.

I have moved into a very nice home and possess the kids 50/50. My physical and mental health has dramatically improved. My kids now have an structured and clean haven. Many people seem happy.

It seems expected she may lose custody of the kids at some point forever. I’m hoping she will keep things in check but as a consequence of constant denial that there was obviously a problem it will most likely reiterate. I may have no choice although take steps to ensure the children’s prevention at some point further disrupting your children’s lives from their if not loving mother.

Limitations relating to pet quantities and cleanliness standards are written in to the divorce settlement agreement.

BTW, wife has been in therapy for a couple years in the midst of this hoarding. I guess you could say the therapist was either certainly not savvy to the situation or maybe enabling to an irresponsible levels. I’m leaning towards the last mentioned. She became more and more emboldened that I was causing their problems as opposed to looking back to the inside. Her therapist seemed to fuel the delusions as far as I really could tell.

Anyway, thanks for every one of your advise and getting me to be able to wake up to the madness We contributed to through inaction.