I (26F) am planning on leaving my husband (28M). How do I do this without emotionally traumatizing my daughter (4)?

So I’ve been married for almost 5 years. We got married really young because I was pregnant and I’ve reached my breaking point. I do 99% of the cleaning and childcare even though we both work full time. Also he barely spends any time with our daughter (he is currently laying in bed watching tv while I am with her in the living room). Every time I bring this up to my husband he gets mad and we have a fight. He is not interested in counseling so there is nothing I can do at this point. Other shit has happened that I don’t want to go into so I have decided I’m ready to leave in the next few weeks.

My issue is I’m scared of how this is going to affect our daughter. I am planning on leaving with her and going to my parents house and they live about an hour away. I’m probably going to quit my job and start over. I have spoken to both of my parents and they are on board because the situation at home sucks and i don’t want my daughter growing up in this environment. How do I explain this to my daughter and keep her from being traumatized by this? My parents never went through a divorce so this is a weird territory for me. And parents who have gone through this please give me advice because I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.

Tl;dr planning on leaving my husband and don’t know how to explain it to my 4 year old daughter.

Submitted March 26, 2020 at 05:24PM by roonil_wazlib_0731 https://ift.tt/39mcLfV