Divorce Support Forums: Overheard conversation

My wife and I have no children together. She has three from a previous marriage and I have none. For the past SEVEN YEARS we have tried to have a child with no success. During this time I have been a pretty good stepdad by most measures, including receiving an endorsement from their father.

However, there have been times when I will tell them one thing and their mother would let them do the opposite which in my opinion completely undermines my authority with them. Mom and daughter(21) had a big fight and so she decides to move in with dad.

I come home and my wife is talking to her Ex about what's going on with their daughter. She's so upset that she doesn't hear me come in. So I just listen just out of eye sight to the what's being said. It turns out that my wife financed the car that the daughter recently purchased even though I specificly said not to, the daughter has a history of being irresponsible. I then hear that it's none of the daughter's business that she had her tubes tied!

I was floored! This whole time we've been trying to conceive has been a sham. I feel like a complete idiot. I still love my wife, but if I stay with her I don't think that I will ever be able to look at myself in the mirror.

Any suggestions would be helpful. Also, I know this is what I get for easdropping, but I would rather know than not know.

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