I see a lot of questions here, "Why did his family leave him?"
It's pretty simple: Some "wives", especially so with officer wives, are in it for the benefits. Again, especially with officer wives, they do it for narcissistic tendency of them latching on to an officer and use that to bully "lesser" wives and flaunt "their rank" even though they have none.
So, having a loss of their support for their narcissism; i.e. their officer husbands rank and pay, they bail. Seen it more times than I can count when I was active duty (24yrs). Granted, not all were like this, but a hell of a lot were.
Ergo, his wife was/is likely solidly in the stereotype.
I see a lot of questions here, "Why did his family leave him?"
It's pretty simple: Some "wives", especially so with officer wives, are in it for the benefits. Again, especially with officer wives, they do it for narcissistic tendency of them latching on to an officer and use that to bully "lesser" wives and flaunt "their rank" even though they have none.
So, having a loss of their support for their narcissism; i.e. their officer husbands rank and pay, they bail. Seen it more times than I can count when I was active duty (24yrs). Granted, not all were like this, but a hell of a lot were.
Ergo, his wife was/is likely solidly in the stereotype.
TL;DR---She was a fuckin gold-digger
Or it was planned to remove all plays from DS to remove their children, etc but above all to keep them safe.
Makes no logical sense. The safest place his own kids could be is with their Dad: a US Marine. Separated, that is no longer viable.