Legal Question in Family Law in Texas

I am in a compromising postion after my husband and I mutually agreed to move from our previous Austin, TX address to Midland, TX where we are still current living with my widowed 81 year old grandmother with our biological son. Finances and the need to find more economic housing were 3/4 the reasoning for the move and allthough we have been through some rough months I ahve continued to work part time with the job I have in for 7 years come October while my husband continues to struggle with either looking, keeping, accepting employment since October 2011. He did not find work till then and we had lived here since August with the promise of his previous employer to transfer him to another job. With that not working out he eventually went to a temporary agency and had worked for an injured employee but knew he was only there for a limited time and tried to pursue other opportunites with help from a fellow coworker but with promises of interviews not being set up he did end up with a shot {one month} permanent job where he had to take a huge paycut but as I mentioned; it was permanent and one week ago he went in and then he came home saying they fired him and I cannot convince him to file for unemployment as a friend of mine encouraged; as he has a lot of pride with carrying a bachelors degree and hates that we moved now and wnats nothing to do with our little family; while I continue to work and take care not only of his child but his dog all while having epilespy. I carry the insurance for the entire family and make sure that my son gets food, clothes, his medication {as he is ADHD with behavioe issues at school}, I get him to and from school, and basically do all the parenting things that most partner-parents share equally. I still love my husband but I have never known a man or person who when they were fired or things have got hard that they do not look past themselves and try other avenues. He continues to wallow in self-pity and playing the blame game on me and thretens to leave without giving reason or when I might see him again. He feels seperating the family and going back to Austin would be in his best interest but in the middle of his depression he has forgotten his responsibility of being a parent and that his family shoudl come first even though he states a job should. He would rather sacrifice our family's stability and ensure a possible bitter divorse and traumatize our son for a dollar then suck up his pride and get out of bed and look on the internet, get out and go busines to business or at least file for unemployment. Right now that puts me ina state of panic thinking how I need to adjust with the notion that he will take my son away and with my medical condition, my son's medical condition and the fact that I have only one living parent who cannot help me financially that I will loose my child due my husband's status of his family's money, and the fact that his mother and I are not on speaking terms and she despises me to the point that she blames me for my sons behavior and eating habits even though he is on meds which cause loss of appetite and I have documented papers profing he has behavior problems which even my husband can't deny. I am scared out of my mind. I have no connections, no one to turn top and feel completly incompetant and allready alone watching my husband dissapear and taking our son away from me.

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