“I confronted my partner for not defending me.”

As above, partner is regularly emotionally manipulated and abused by his four late teen/adult children and an employee of his who he has taken under his wing as a daughter.

His children have been influenced by his very abusive ex so I can’t really hold their behaviour against them as upsetting as it is, but essentially one wont see or talk to him at all any more and bad mouths him to everyone, the other three barely ever see him and, when they do, it’s solely on their initiation and terms and