This happened to my best friend: His wife asked for divorce. They went to counseling. He found photographic evidence that she was having an affair. She then falsely accused him of child molestation and coached their four year old in an accusation. He signed over durable power of attorney to her and gave her all his assets (.25 mil$) to provide for the children and fled abroad. Finally, he found that the DA had found insufficient (no) evidence. However, two years later his visa and Driver’s License was revoked for lack of support. He’s returned and has convinced her to sign a final agreement and waive future payments. She lives with her boyfriend. He’ll never be able to see his children. As in Quinn’s case she used the respectability of church-going to cloak her plan. She was a lot smarter than I gave her credit for, in an animal-cunning sort of way.
I’ve heard of two other cases almost exactly like this that happened to friends relatives. Unless you’d stake your life on your wife-to-be’s character for the decades to come; don’t marry.
That said, I’ve been married for nearly ten years and likely to remain so. There were long stretches where it wasn’t a happy relationship; with work and perseverence it became so.
