Dear Sir/Madam,
We are married for four years but staying seperately due to few reasons as stated below after 8 months of our married life. Following are few problems I am facing.
1) My wife wants to alienate me from rest of my family members and friends.
2) Her father is hen-pecked and whose mother (Second wife - Got married to this lady after his first wife expired) dominates all family situations.
3) My wife listens to and acts in accordance with her parents’ wishes at all times,
4) My wife is hypersensitive and therefore easily gets insulted for even a simple thing
5) Blackmail (emotional or otherwise) and threats to get her unreasonable demands fulfilled by me and walks out to her parents house following an argument and stays away from me indefinitely without any effort towards reconciliation. Her parents never make any efforts to get her back to me.
After leaving the house she came up with three conditions and said that she will join me after I fulfill all of them as said below
1) Seperate family
2) No one will stay with us including my mother
3) She should not be invited for any kind of family get togethers or functions
She never bothered to inform me about her pregnancy at the time of leaving my house and came to know about it latter on from the sources. We have a baby girl and whose age is two and a half years now. She was with her mother till a couple of months back. From last couple of months I am taking care of the child.
I personally tried to convince her several ways and by several relatives. Every effort went in vain. As she never showed any interest, we have filed a mutual concent divorce in December, 2007. We were given six months of time for reconciliation. During this time I made my efforts again and fulfilled all her three conditions and during the final hearing on 6th of Oct., 2008 we withdrew the case as she promised to join me.
Later on till date she had not made any such efforts for joining me even after I setup a seperate house. On asking her about the same she emotionally blackmails me and threats me to get her unreasonable new set of demands fulfilled. If I don't do the same she just stays away from me and never makes any efforts for reconciliation.
I am totally depressed with these kind of activities of my wife.
I am no more interested in living this kind of unhealthy married life. Please suggest me how do I get seperated from her as early as possible. Can I approach Lok Adalat for the same. At the same time I am worried about this section 498 as they may take any undesired advantage of this section and harass me much more.
Also, I don't want her to claim for our baby. I don't like my baby to grow in such an environment.
She is now working for a small IT firm. Do I need to pay her the maintenance?
Please provide me the approach to overcome all these problems.