Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : My dad has been married to my mom for more than 15 years. My dad used to always say that my mom was the happy and social half to his more quiet and reserved personality. Additionally, he's worked 27 years of his live to support the marriage and is currently retired at 59. Since I'm 16, I have trouble remembering exactly how far this goes back, but I remember that at least over the last 4 years my mom has been abusive. We think that she's developed some form of bipolar disorder but we can't be sure because she refuses to get herself assessed. She's been in denial over the state of my parents' marriage, called my dad a drunk loser and harassed him when he was struggling with his alcohol addiction, falsely accused him many times of having an affair with absolutely no substantial reason to believe so, and refuses to accept that she's wrong (one time yelling at us because we disagreed with her about Jell-O being healthy). Moreover, she's said that hitting her kids makes her "feel like she's doing her motherly duty" and one time pushed my dad to the floor (when he was 58). I feel like for the majority of my life my dad has been the only one I can turn to because he can understand me and my brother and manages to be rational. My dad has been nothing but a selfless giver to my family, and my mom still complains about what he provides and calls him manipulative. One night when I was with my dad, he confessed to me that the only reason he hasn't divorced my mother is because he can't afford to pay the alimony and he needs to have money for sending me and my brother to college. He cried and told me this while my mother was slamming her fist against the door and saying to "not listen to him because he's manipulating you." He continued by saying that when he dies, he's going to try to find a way to split as much money as he can between me and my brother and attempt to leave nothing behind for my mother. This is where personally I think my situation is morally questionable. I'm comfortable saying that I don't love my mom and I also believe that she isn't *entitled* to any of the money and I don't want to forgive her, but my moral values also conflict and make me think "well we should at least leave her something."  
What should I do?  
