I have just discovered this site, and am I gratefull! I just discovered after 16 years of marriage, that I was not alone in the "I just don't love you anymore" syndrome of men in they're early to mid 40's. I'm thinking it's a male menopause thing, and effects men hormonally just like menopause in a woman. I can't believe that there are no laws to help protect women who are stay at home mothers. My stbx closed our bank account, filed for divorce, informed me that he was no longer giving me any money, even for the most personal of items. He would keep my car in gas so I could get a job and move out. I have been here for 3 months with my children 3,7, 10 and 13,since his announcement and he has come and gone whenever he pleases. How can the law be so lacking in protection of homemakers who give up careers or even a simple job to stay at home with children, then be tossed and disregarded by they're spouse?? Divorce is hard enough emotionally when it is served in a surprise fashion, let alone be abandoned and left penniless on a whim...It seems impossible to overcome the feeling of abandonment and devistation. Does anyone have advise on how to deal with a stbx who is holding all of the cards until a "court date" can be established? It truley is a court of laws, not justice....