Physical & Emotional Abuse Support Group
Abuse is a general term for the treatment of someone that causes some kind of harm (to the abused person, to the abusers themselves, or to someone else) that is unlawful or wrongful. No one deserves abuse, period. Abuse can be emotional, physical, or sexual.
You are playing right into his hands
Cut him off
He's an abuser he will treat her the same as you probably worse as he will have learnt from you what more he can get away with
If you need contact for reasons of financial settlement use a lawyer or family mediator. Do not allow this guy to mess with your head for sport which it sounds to me like he is doing
NEVER believe a word an abuser tells you it's all for effect and he is wnding you up quite blantantly