I'm not necessarily jealous of her, but not sure what to call it. Ex and I were married 8 years and they have been married for 3 now, so it's not a new wound or anything. However, my kids tell me of the way he treats his current wife, and it's so much better than he ever treated me or our kids. They go out to 4-star restaurants and travel around the US on vacation, whereas he'd go out to eat by himself and make me stay home, becoming verbally abusive and threatening if I pushed the issue; and forget ever traveling anywhere! He created an atmosphere of fear in our home, but appears to fall over himself to make his second wife happy. I certainly would never want him back, but I keep asking myself why he treated *me* so badly if he had it in him to be the romantic, caring guy he seems to have become with her? (He still shows the old temper and lack of desire to be a dad as before, too; all his affection seems to be reserved for this woman.) That's just hard to take, and makes me wonder about myself (and then get angry all over again).
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