OP needs to stop saying "I'm not saying that..." And tell her MIL, "YES! I AM saying YOU are responsible for all of this AND you are a horrible person!"
12 yrs & 51 minutes of her being a doormat.. I had to skip some of this. She was really irritating me.. she allowed all of this to happen when all she had to do was just divorce him.. she get rid of him, she get rid of his mother and their toxicity.. instead, she spends almost an hour whining, crying & going back and forth🙄.. . he kept disrespecting her & she kept allowing it... what wife with a lick of backbone would put up with this nonsense even a minute?.. it took her 12yrs to realize her, her children and her parents weren't considered part of his family.. she is slow & delayed.
Staying in a toxic unhappy relationship for the children isn't doing the children any good. Children learn from what they see. You are teaching your children that is how a man is supposed to treat his family by staying in that toxicity. He wasn't even a good father.. so I'm confused how she was styaing for the "children"?.. She stayed for herself🙄 .. he barely even spent time with the children, so what purpose was he serving them?.. 12 yrs wasted.
Where is this wife's backbone if not for herself or parents, how about her children. When he gave his mother the money the 1st time, he stole from his children. He don't give a crap about her. She needed to cuss that lazy mil in the beginning. I don't feel sorry for his wife. Why do folks use children for selfish behavior. The ending does not tell what happened to the parents and her husband. Very disappointed