Eclipse: I’m with you, I didn’t say the wife ‘makes’ him feel inferior; I meant the husband may naturally feel inferior, because he’s lacking proper emotional health [due to his childhood upbringing], and coupled with his feelings of guilt [that his own miscalculations and/or lack of skill has caused his downfall of parnassah]. You should definitely be commended for picking yourself up and leaving an abusive marriage [and I’m a man speaking]. May Hashem give you strength to continue to raise a special yiddishe family.
Smart Cookie: I disagree with your assumption. If a marriage is healthy on the emotional level, then other pretty women will not affect a man’s marriage, since a man/woman naturally learn how to appreciate whatever they have, even if it may seem that the grass is greener elsewhere.