A few hours after I made my update about going on the trip, I ended up telling him that I want a divorce.

It did not go over well and he was upset, saying I “couldn’t make it without him” and saying I was hurting our son by doing this. Last night we had an ok conversation, but tonight he cornered me in our bedroom and said he refuses to take off his ring, and that as long I’m in the apartment with him, he will fight with me every day until I agree to drop this and continue our marriage. He also said that “couples fight and that doesn’t mean they leave” to which I said “no one has to stay when they’ve been abused.”

I should have never left Georgia as some of y’all suggested, and while I’m regretting that I did, I was thinking about my child. I also am upset that I cannot bring my child with me because he won’t have a place to stay, but I also don’t want to catch a kidnapping charge. He has a family member he can stay with, I just have to pay them. At this point I need to put distance between my STBXH and myself and the only way he will see that I’m done and there is no marriage is if I leave for good.