Prey

As the story line progresses the husband believes that his wife is going to divorce him. She claims that he is turning his children against her, minimizing her, making her feel like she is worthless. All of these things are commonly heard in a divorce court and if the wife says in court, what she just told her husband, she is sure to win custody of the kids. The husband is very passive and allows things to happen without taking much action at all. He even stated that some courts in California would rather give children to a mother who is on drugs, or hits her children (as long as she doesn't hit them too hard) rather than giving the kids to a father because all children need a mother figure to be raised and loved by. Personally if I knew that my wife was having an affair with another man I wouldn't be staying around looking stupid. The husband is out of work and this is another reason as to why his wife is losing attraction towards him. He meets with his job hunt helper and she tells him that there are pleanty of jobs outside of the Sillicon valley that are fit for him and very high paying. She explains to him that his shelf life is not much longer, meaning that if he is out of work for more than half of a year comapanies are going to start to wonder why and not even want to interview him or even view his application. It is explained to him that he needs to act quickly or else he may never hold a job in his career field as high up as he was ever again. He understands and wants to take action but due to some circumstances going on with his family life I feel as if he is going to keep pushing the job hunt back and continue to be Mr. Mom.  The problem is he knows his wife won't want to move, he was offered jobs in Austin, Texas and other places on the east coast but he continued to refuse the move mainly because he  doesn't want to put his children through moving and having to go to a new school and make new friends. Everything is going downhill in his life right now and he knows it, he even states that he is depressed. If i were to guess what was to happen next in the novel I would say that his wife beings to become more and more shady, and he begins to take more and more "crap" from her until he cant take enough and he decides to divorce her.