A buddy came over last night for the games and he was telling me about his situation.
He and his wife have 2 kids, a few years back they (really he) ended up buying her childhood family home together. Their relationship started to fall apart, she ended up cheating on him, now they're separated going through a divorce, while still living in the same house together.
This has been going on for over a year now. They fight all the time, she'll call the cops, and he thinks she's trying to provoke him into getting violent so that she'll have an upper hand on the lawyer proceedings. They had the house appraised recently as he wants to sell and get the fuck out, but her and the lawyer reject the appraisal as it's "too high", WTF?
The problem is her dad and her can't afford to buy him out as the house has gone up considerably since the purchase years ago, so instead she's bleeding him dry in lawyer fees and ignoring/rejecting all offers his lawyer puts forward for spousal support to finalize the divorce.
So he's stuck in this feedback loop, living together, fighting all the time, with no end game, while watching the lawyers whittle away his, and by extension the children's financial future.