I'm putting you on my prayer list, shockedcanadian. You married a terminal control freak, and a liar who will go all out to put you behind bars and sell all your assets. You need to line up people who know what you've been through, and I hope one of them is a stable married woman who knows of your situation. You better get the best lawyer you can afford to get you out of your melee, because you will receive truly bad results if you don't. Try and find out when she received a dislocated arm. Somebody knows and hopefully will speak in your behalf. I wouldn't count on a reconciliation, because control freaks always go for the gold, and anyone who gets in their way has a 50% chance of being accused of everything from child molestation to an old injury acquired in a different time parameter, so hopefully you have kept astute records of health insurances that are backed up with the truth. Your chances of going to jail are terrible, but control freaks will do what it takes if they can get away with getting pity from a jury. Do you know anyone else she has lied about in an obsessive way? Take some notes and back up your claims with witnesses who know you would never lift a hand against a loved one. Even if your chances land you behind bars for a few years, I hope friends who know you will testify about her propensity to beat up on others who don't deserve to be lied about. Call your church pastor if you have one. I have a friend whose abusive wife used her children to lie that he had sexually abused them at an early age. He spent 5 years of unspeakable abuse by inmates and jailers who hated the thought of child abusers, for which he was convicted in a court of law. I think Northwestern University found that 16% of inmates in jails did not commit the crime they were accused of. Do you remember the McMartin Child Care scandal that kept one of their employees in jail for years for abusing their child who was frightened into lying for her accusatory mother who had some kind of mental illness, ?schizophrenia? Here's a start to understand false allegations are frequently made by the deranged and greedy:
What You Need to Know About the McMartin Case | California CACI Removal Lawyer
Northwestern University checked DNA in a number of cases wherein the convicted seemed innocent to some people. Their research concluded that 16% of the people behind bars for sexual abuse did not commit the crime they were convicted of before DNA became a method of determining whether or not the accused actually did the crime he was accused of. These were people who had served many years in jail due to false witness whether on purpose or circumstantial failure to identify the real perpetrator of the sex crime. Be prepared, SC. Control Freaks do all they can to win, including lie, cheat, steal, exaggerate and planting false evidence and using other false witnesses who fortunately back when could not pass a lie detector test, which have been shown to have frequent fails. I don't want to see anyone go to jail for something they didn't do. Jail simply doesn't make the victim of a liar fail to be bitter unless they forgive a liar. That is not easy to do from my observation of a good man who was so accused. He lost his home, his total trucking business, which was sold and given to his ex, and he has to visit an officer of the court who will ask embarrassing questions for the rest of his life into his 80s. His children that were forced to lie by their mother can't remember any molestations, but are confused people because their mother dumped them after she was compensated with multiple benefits for getting them to lie in court. They're scared to recant lest they wind up in jail for the crime of sending an innocent man to jail for something he never even considered doing. He lost all his friends, his mother disinherited him even though he continued to be the dutiful son he had always been before. While he was in jail, his jailers tortured him for refusing to admit to the crime he didn't commit, because he was a Marine, and they are taught to not lie and to be faithful to others for life. He said his life would have been better in jail if he had admitted to doing the crime he didn't commit. His children were frightened into never talking about his innocence by their estranged mother. (She dumped them and both were placed into an orphanage where she regularly threatened to have them sent to jail for other "crimes" they didn't commit, either), and the counsellors of the orphanage treated them for abuse they were afraid to deny because of their mother's warnings. She moved out of state and didn't visit the son and the daughter she forced to confess that their father had molested both of them. Both of them confided in me that they were not molested by him, not even once. They tell him they can't clear his name because they are of being charged with perjury. They don't understand why their dad is so disappointed in them, even though they have told a number of his friends he didn't do anything bad to them, he was innocent, and he has forgiven them even though they won't free him of the life they forced on him by doing what their control freak mother told them to do. The state has a law to never let a convicted child abuser stop paying for his alleged crime that was induced with no evidence whatever, and the children involved were coached with no exceptions except to continue on with the charade that made their mom a rich woman and their dad an object of scorn for the duration of his life, if he lives to be 100.
As I said, SC, tell your situation to a pastor, because control freaks will never admit their lies to anyone, because the assets and the pity are their idea of heaven in exchange for a false case witness, and the little lies that brought public outrage against an adversary they destroyed.