survive my divorce

By my count, assuming there are no more court actionable issues we can’t overcome on our own, things FINALLY will be FINAL.

I got my divorce in 1988 after being separated for more than a year, so it’s been a while but I wanted to put this on my list so those of you just struggling with it now [Moo!] can see it is possible to do. I am better off now than when I was married. I’m not against marriage but unhappiness inside a marriage should be solved or if not possible, simply left. Some relationships are toxic. Some just don’t work. Some are so uneven as to be unfair. Some are dangerous. My message is just that if this is your path, chin up! It is a hard one but most of us survive to see better days!

...of the whole sordid affair will appear here.

I need the time and inclination to do so. :P

...and I PROMISE, it’s not a pity party for me, just a place where I can express the events that are now shaping the rebirth of my life.

I want to live for since I found out about my husbands affair all I ve done seems to be wrong. I love him still but feel so stuped that not even my rights I want to wait to take. Today I ve cleaned the house and made everything nice to live all for him. Now he is alway and is arriving tomorrow by the time he comes I am not going to be around.

After 11 years and 4 children, my husband decided he wasn’t happy anymore and needed to date. He started dating a 19 year old then moved on to someoen else. I begged and pleaded but at the end of the day he had made up his mind. He said it was time he started living for himself. We had just moved to a new town and bought a home. I did not know a single person and I literally felt like I was going to die. I know exactly why they call it heartbreak. I felt many times pain on an actual physical level that I thought I would never live through. There is hope!!! I turned to God in my hour of need and I sought out a church. There I found wonderful friends and I slowly began to build back my life. Surviving a divorce is worth it. If you turn your life over to God then He will carry you through and bless you beyond what you could imagine. My advice is to get the best lawyer money can buy to protect yourself BUT also take the high road whenever possible. Even when you have all the blame cast upon you, try to turn the other cheek. In the end, you will be the better person for it.

I was 40 in April, my ex wife to be was 40 in August, we had an ok relationship, until the morning she walked in and announced she wanted a divorce.
Turns out she’s been sleeping around for a while, but she wont admit to it.
She has taken great pleasure in blaming me and i really no longer care just to get divorced and away from her.
But to be honest now after much reflection and soul searching, including a huge moment of suicidal depression i found that my friends care for me and have been hugely supportive.
Life gets better, i know it does, i’m not incredibly good looking, but i get by and have found a wonderful woman to share my life with, quite frankly i didnt believe i would ever have a relationship again and would neer trust a women, but my lovely Lizzy has chnged that, and i couldnt be happier.
Some good advice is posted on here , but remember if you can do it friendly and amicably it can be done quickly without fuss, divorce isnt fun but it neednt be too life changing..

I am a different person because of this. I have grown in some ways, yet discovered many weaknesses in myself that I did not know I had. I’m still trying to figure it out.

I moved out April 1st and took our six munchkins with me. I’m broken. I feel like I just can’t make it. I’m alone and scared and have no one to talk to.

But that’s me TODAY. That won’t be me in the future. I intend to take control of my life and become the woman I was destined to be. I will be a GREAT mom to the munchkins, and grow in my faith daily. One day, I may even love again…

I just started to enjoy 43things today, I was looking at all the new modern websites and this was really neat and new.
Only about 3 weeks ago I started writing more of all things.. it is fun actually, it is for technical products.

Sorry this ones not that kind of technical.. another kind.

My wife and I have had problems since day 1. I pushed her up against a door on my honeymoon after we packed to head home, Not extremely hard but..all the same. I will never understand why, why would I destroy something 3 days after I wed? I KNOW why, but I still had a choice. My parents (step-father/mom) destroyed me as a child..I was very young, 4/5-10 I left at 12.

But I STILL at that very day, 3 days after my marriage, I could have said NO, don’t break it, don’t kill this relationship, cherish her. Love her forever, she is yours, keep her and protect her.

(childhood thing.. well I could go into what happened at 5 with shock-sticks etc. but I am seeing beyond that.. all of us I hear have really bad stuff happen to us, and I need to learn to help others instead of needing to be helped all the time.)

Beyond control I guess I make everything about me, so bad she is divorcing me. We have been arguing for 6 weeks and there is no excuse for me at 35, I am born-again.. but I guess now.. I REALLY need to be born again. I have decided to be made new. And I really want it. SO I thought by sharing, I would defeat my shame openly.. the bible says the things in darkness only kill and destroy.. I was so ashamed.. I hid all the problems I had the best I could, but because I hid them AFTER repeating them day after day.. life would not sprout. I am sorry to humanity and to my Wife I have told in every way I know how, I beg for mercy but I guess there is no time left.

If this helps one person eternaly, I would be blessed. If you are treating someone bad, trust me, stop, or it WILL end. I don’t want it to end for you if it can be saved, cause I can tell you, you will not like it. It will rip your heart out.. so don’t rip anyone else’s heart out. I PUBLICLY DECLARE I HAVE LEARNED MY LESSON. I will NOT let this happen again at any cost.
Because of what I did as a MAN a FATHER, now my 5 year and 1 year old will suffer the loss of their parents together.

I pack in the morning.. I am going 3000 miles to the west coast to regroup. I guess a month, I don’t think there is a given path here. I will regroup as fast as I can with enough money for an apartment and try to be a good person. I would do anything to save the marriage, but I guess at this point, I would have to be FIXED. So you accept that I guess, and if she waits for me then I will be there. But I think that is not the point here.

I was actually saying “I did not see it coming!”. Bull crap, you did the work! So I am not allowing myself to Say that anymore when I think it.. .. Yes you did see it coming! And I CHOSE not to change and try 1000X more over 6 years.

I don’t want this to ever happen to another human being again. And I guess… I am saying. By expressing myself is such a raw public way like this, openly telling the world what I have done, It is the least I can do to correct a very big wrong done to somebody. I think that men SHOULD say something if they are going to behave like animals. So… I will take the lead. Will you join me? I think it will heal me, this is step 2 for me.
Step 1. was friday, it is sorta complex, and brutally honest sadly. The darkness I talked about.. I entered into sexual addiction at the age of 13 I think. And the addiction was off and on over 20+ years! I hated it, but it controlled me..in the last years online pornography.. a very wicked place for a man trying to live an opposite life.

Friday. It was something I had to do to fix myself. I had tried so many thousands of times to win over the addiction in the past and I always failed again. But I cant express in words why I know I have beat it now. But I do know I let God help me. I prayed what to do as I always had, help me! Please! I feel I then had the thought, led by God, to search the web for a better porn-filter, one I could not turn off at will or circumvent. Netmop.com, and also even if I was tempted I would be blocked.

It was the very thing destroying me and as a result, my marriage. But who could I tell? Nobody really goes around confessing THIS sin! But hiding it was killing me! 20 years proved it! Tell your wife!?! Yeah.. uh Crazy!! But when there is not another option then .. I guess I made the right choice right? Maybe I blew it.. damn.. but I knew I needed fixed and I had to reveal the sin to do that cause sin undealt with and recuring causes death to all things ESSPECIALLY sexual sin. And I wanted to save my marriage at all cost.

So I obeyed and I confessed to my wife and a couple friends what I had done and to please forgive me. I know I will never view it again. I know I am healed after 20 years the day came at last!

I started to change in really big ways after about 3 years, I grew so tired of fighting. But I had done so much damage to her emotionaly the roles started to switch.. And now at 6 years I feel and know what she felt then.. crushed down deep deep deep.

This message is raw with honesty sad to say, I wish I had started to help heal our intimacy 8 weeks ago, at least. But a whirlwhind started in my life, I could not get out of. But really in many ways the enemy was the monster I created. I tried with all my heart mind and sould to create a profitable ecommerce store.. only made it to 700,000 is Net sales the 5th year. I can’t even stand the word ecommerce anymore. As the company came crashing down I agonized what to do.. I did not rush into it but then I made a wrong choice totally against my wife and her wishes.. I thought I could save it by renting a local shop and doing both online and walk-in. That cost me an additional $10,000 in debt, and 3 months ago against everything inside me, I filed bankruptcy, I feel ashamed, but It got bigger than me and anyway.. it bankrupted both of us financially. Not good. Now I really pissed her off.

Then my church asked me to leave. I won’t go there, but God can heal all things, the wound is raw there. The pain was beyond words. All I know is the Lord came to heal the sick, and I guess some have forgotten that one.

I thought we were going to make it. That is what is so hard to get.. I wanted to live the rest of my life with her. But the worst of all is I have two babies. Life is soo very sad if (I) you choose not to make the right choices. I think for real, I have learned my lesson.. after 35 years. All she ever wanted from me was for me to “be nice”.

Living after divorce.. hmm I will. I WILL! As millions have lived before me on Earth, my boys are the love of my life, I have never known love more pure than for my children. I think even more for me personally because I was the 2nd part of a decision process to end the loves of 2 babies in the womb as a teenager. What a fool. What a different person that was eh? And to see my babies I have now, the beauty the hold
I will no longer hide my sins, my shame that had me in chains, the lust of my flesh that ruined my life.

There is nothing more about me to hide. I am in the light.

I hope in faith by being in the light as the days turn into weeks and months I will become a new man. I wait for you babe.

But I think I understand you, I need to do it alone now. And I want to do it for me now. I want to live and not be dead to sin. Such a bitter sweet victory though.. I won something and lost something in just 2 days.

Pray for me all, I am going to enroll in onlinepurity.com
And get off stimulants, i got on them because of some comments about me triggered old patterns but.. Beyond that just day by day. And I think a really good point for trying to tell others. I broke the generational curse. I feel good about that. My boys will not have that curse. amen. Bless you if your still here.