My husband had no idea there was a camera in the room… After the weekend, when he was with our daughter, she was unrecognizable. But what I saw on the recording turned my world upside down.

In recent months, he had changed dramatically. No trace of the loving father and caring husband remained: coldness, irritability, constant lateness coming home.

And what worried me the most — he seemed to avoid our two-year-old daughter. During the day he would pass by her as if she didn’t exist. But on weekends, he insisted on staying with her, convincing me not to call anyone for help.

After those “weekends,” the little girl was unrecognizable. Tears, refusal to eat or play, panic-stricken fear at the sight of her father. I tried to convince myself it was just an age-related crisis. But my heart told me there was something else.

One day I decided: I hid a camera in her room. That evening, watching the recording, I first sighed in relief — my daughter was playing, my husband was on his phone. But a few minutes later, something happened that made my blood run cold…

Exactly what I saw — read in the comments.

The next evening, I summoned the courage. I sat across from him and played the recording. His gaze froze, his lips trembled, but he tried to brush it off: “I was just disciplining her.” Those words hurt more than the screams on the video.

I didn’t let him escape the truth. I showed him how our daughter reached for his arms, and he pushed her away.

I reminded him how she had curled up in a corner, clutching her toy like a life preserver. His excuses fell apart one by one.

He began pacing around the room, almost like in the recording — a trapped animal in a cage. But when I said: “In her eyes, there was fear of you,” he lowered his head.

His voice broke: work, stress, fatigue… But is that an excuse?

I said clearly: either he seeks help and changes, or he loses both of us. No compromises.

At night, I held my daughter’s hand. She slept, unaware that her world had begun to change.

And I knew: tomorrow we would wake up in a new reality, where I would have to choose — save the marriage or protect the child unconditionally.