Dear Christine,
I felt led to share my experience with readers with the hope that someone would be encouraged.
In 2002, after seven years of what I thought was a good marriage, my husband announced that he was “unfulfilled” and wanted a divorce. I tried to make things work, but in the end, he said he wanted out. He swore to me there was no one else.
I did as he requested and gave him the divorce. A year later, he got one of his co-workers pregnant and soon after married her. I later discovered that they had been having an affair for several years.
I thought I was going to die. I became anorexic, lost 15 pounds in six weeks and almost died. Finally, I moved back home to my parents.
Before I did that, I hated coming home to an empty house, but time has a way of healing.
I turned to the all-sufficient God who told us to cast our cares on Him. I joined a prayer group and returned to church – something I had stopped from doing. I also received special counselling and started looking after my health.
My family was very supportive. More than anything else, I needed their support to help me make it through.
Two years after turning my life around, I met a wonderful man at the same church I am still attending up to this day.
He is kind, honest, loving, has a great job, is one of the sexiest men I’ve ever met and he treats me the way a husband should treat a wife. I am so thankful to God for giving me another chance at love.
We got married 18 months after we met and are the parents a six-year-old adorable boy. [I had no children from my first marriage, and my husband had never fathered a child.]
Please tell your readers that there is life after divorce, and there is no need to be bitter and unforgiving.
I am not in contact with my former husband, but I hold no malice or unforgiveness in my heart towards him. What I can say is that my life is far better than what it was when we were together.
I hope my story encourages someone to hang in there and to look behind the failures which confront us from time to time.
– BTB
Dear BTB,
Often the challenges, pains and hurts we experience in life are stepping stones to greater and better things.
Many times we cannot see where we are going because the way is dark.
However, if we will remain on course even through those dark times, we’ll eventually see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Thanks for sharing. I am certain your experience has indeed encouraged many readers out there.
– CHRISTINE
