Divorce update

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65rosessamurai

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It's sad when a divorce occurs, but worse when one of the spouses cheating comes into play.
At least you finally found out...I still don't know if my ex was sleeping around with another man, or another woman for that matter!!
I've only been on one side of the fence, but it was the "Guy's Side", so I can relate.
The ex wasn't playing the "caretaker" for me, she did the opposite, in fact-and took my money, too!! She kinda threw me under the rug, so to say when she found out I was sterile in the first year of our marriage...took me 10 years to realize that reality! (And many mooore<img src="i/expressions/musicnote.gif" border="0"> )
Anyway, there will be many things that will linger in your head, which will definitely boil your blood. I recommend in the first few months, to find someplace, like a diary, to write all that stuff down...sort of like "Purging" your brain of all that. Writing here can also bring support to your situation.
However, I've found that sometimes even years after the divorce, some questions or feelings come up. I took the suggestion to call it a "Brain Fart", and "do away" with that self-destructive thinking by erasing it from my train of thought.
As for the ($$) dude, he'll probably be tossed away cause she probably doesn't like his body odor or something!
MY BEST TO you through this difficult time...if you've already mourned through the divorce (I had my mourning at least a year before my divorce was finialized), then there are a few more stages to go before you see the clouds parting and the sun ray hitting you on the face.
 
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65rosessamurai

Guest
It's sad when a divorce occurs, but worse when one of the spouses cheating comes into play.
At least you finally found out...I still don't know if my ex was sleeping around with another man, or another woman for that matter!!
I've only been on one side of the fence, but it was the "Guy's Side", so I can relate.
The ex wasn't playing the "caretaker" for me, she did the opposite, in fact-and took my money, too!! She kinda threw me under the rug, so to say when she found out I was sterile in the first year of our marriage...took me 10 years to realize that reality! (And many mooore<img src="i/expressions/musicnote.gif" border="0"> )
Anyway, there will be many things that will linger in your head, which will definitely boil your blood. I recommend in the first few months, to find someplace, like a diary, to write all that stuff down...sort of like "Purging" your brain of all that. Writing here can also bring support to your situation.
However, I've found that sometimes even years after the divorce, some questions or feelings come up. I took the suggestion to call it a "Brain Fart", and "do away" with that self-destructive thinking by erasing it from my train of thought.
As for the ($$) dude, he'll probably be tossed away cause she probably doesn't like his body odor or something!
MY BEST TO you through this difficult time...if you've already mourned through the divorce (I had my mourning at least a year before my divorce was finialized), then there are a few more stages to go before you see the clouds parting and the sun ray hitting you on the face.
 
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Jade

Guest
I've seen this happen a million and 10 times when I was P.I. Sorry it happened to you though. It always sucks cause the one cheating has the nerve to cheat in the first place...but yet can't find the courage to just say how they feel and end things the right way. If there is a right way. Hope things start looking better for you after all this is over. On a side note..... if you have a joint bank account watch it closely.
 
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Jade

Guest
I've seen this happen a million and 10 times when I was P.I. Sorry it happened to you though. It always sucks cause the one cheating has the nerve to cheat in the first place...but yet can't find the courage to just say how they feel and end things the right way. If there is a right way. Hope things start looking better for you after all this is over. On a side note..... if you have a joint bank account watch it closely.
 
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Jade

Guest
I've seen this happen a million and 10 times when I was P.I. Sorry it happened to you though. It always sucks cause the one cheating has the nerve to cheat in the first place...but yet can't find the courage to just say how they feel and end things the right way. If there is a right way. Hope things start looking better for you after all this is over. On a side note..... if you have a joint bank account watch it closely.
 
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Jade

Guest
I've seen this happen a million and 10 times when I was P.I. Sorry it happened to you though. It always sucks cause the one cheating has the nerve to cheat in the first place...but yet can't find the courage to just say how they feel and end things the right way. If there is a right way. Hope things start looking better for you after all this is over. On a side note..... if you have a joint bank account watch it closely.
 
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Jade

Guest
I've seen this happen a million and 10 times when I was P.I. Sorry it happened to you though. It always sucks cause the one cheating has the nerve to cheat in the first place...but yet can't find the courage to just say how they feel and end things the right way. If there is a right way. Hope things start looking better for you after all this is over. On a side note..... if you have a joint bank account watch it closely.
 
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Jade

Guest
I've seen this happen a million and 10 times when I was P.I. Sorry it happened to you though. It always sucks cause the one cheating has the nerve to cheat in the first place...but yet can't find the courage to just say how they feel and end things the right way. If there is a right way. Hope things start looking better for you after all this is over. On a side note..... if you have a joint bank account watch it closely.
 

lightNlife

New member
An excerpt from my book <i>Dear Future Husband</i> (not intended to be judgmental, just offering my perspective on marriage)

<b>July 28, 2000
Dear Future Husband,

God does some pretty odd things to make us focus on Him and really zero in on what it means to act in faith and to live faithfully. Trusting Him to work in my life is sometimes difficult. Many times I'm tempted to ask, "Why me, Lord?" I get frustrated by all of the "character-building experiences" He's had me go through. But each and every time He's there just waiting for me to give all my frustrations over to Him.

You and I will have a lot to face together, I'm sure of it. That's why the wedding vows are all-encompassing. We need to stick by each other for richer, poorer; in sickness and health; from the moment we say "I do" until our last breath. I believe that's the fullness and completion of love - commitment until death. That's how Christ loved us as a man. He loved us with all He had, right up until His death.

Someday, I will make my lifelong commitment to you. I will be yours for however long God allows. Never doubt that I love you. No matter what we go through, I will be by your side as your wife for the rest of my days.

Wherever you are tonight, as I'm writing this, I'm praying for you. I'm praying that God is preparing your heart for the commitment we will one day make to each other. It may be 5 years from now or 10 years from now. I have faith in God's timing. When all is in place, you and I will be together.

I'm waiting to belong to you completely, as the Lord would have us be.
In Christ's Love,
Lauren Grace

"If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." (1st John 4:15-16)

Brad once explained that he does not just love me; he is in love with me. By that he means that our relationship is not unidirectional like the one-sided unrequited love that we see in movies or read about in silly romance novels. To be in love requires that both people be actively engaged and participating in the relationship. To quote the lyrics of DCTalk's song, "love is a verb." By definition, verbs are action words. Loving actions are born of choice. The world's oft-expressed definition of love as something that can be fallen into - as if it were an open trench along the sidewalk - downshifts love into a passive thing. The appropriate definition, based on God's word and in the context of marriage, is that true love is far from passive. </b>

Excerpted from <i>Dear Future Husband</i> Copyright (c) 2007. Lauren G. Beyenhof. Not to be reprinted without express consent from the author.
 

lightNlife

New member
An excerpt from my book <i>Dear Future Husband</i> (not intended to be judgmental, just offering my perspective on marriage)

<b>July 28, 2000
Dear Future Husband,

God does some pretty odd things to make us focus on Him and really zero in on what it means to act in faith and to live faithfully. Trusting Him to work in my life is sometimes difficult. Many times I'm tempted to ask, "Why me, Lord?" I get frustrated by all of the "character-building experiences" He's had me go through. But each and every time He's there just waiting for me to give all my frustrations over to Him.

You and I will have a lot to face together, I'm sure of it. That's why the wedding vows are all-encompassing. We need to stick by each other for richer, poorer; in sickness and health; from the moment we say "I do" until our last breath. I believe that's the fullness and completion of love - commitment until death. That's how Christ loved us as a man. He loved us with all He had, right up until His death.

Someday, I will make my lifelong commitment to you. I will be yours for however long God allows. Never doubt that I love you. No matter what we go through, I will be by your side as your wife for the rest of my days.

Wherever you are tonight, as I'm writing this, I'm praying for you. I'm praying that God is preparing your heart for the commitment we will one day make to each other. It may be 5 years from now or 10 years from now. I have faith in God's timing. When all is in place, you and I will be together.

I'm waiting to belong to you completely, as the Lord would have us be.
In Christ's Love,
Lauren Grace

"If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." (1st John 4:15-16)

Brad once explained that he does not just love me; he is in love with me. By that he means that our relationship is not unidirectional like the one-sided unrequited love that we see in movies or read about in silly romance novels. To be in love requires that both people be actively engaged and participating in the relationship. To quote the lyrics of DCTalk's song, "love is a verb." By definition, verbs are action words. Loving actions are born of choice. The world's oft-expressed definition of love as something that can be fallen into - as if it were an open trench along the sidewalk - downshifts love into a passive thing. The appropriate definition, based on God's word and in the context of marriage, is that true love is far from passive. </b>

Excerpted from <i>Dear Future Husband</i> Copyright (c) 2007. Lauren G. Beyenhof. Not to be reprinted without express consent from the author.
 

lightNlife

New member
An excerpt from my book <i>Dear Future Husband</i> (not intended to be judgmental, just offering my perspective on marriage)

<b>July 28, 2000
Dear Future Husband,

God does some pretty odd things to make us focus on Him and really zero in on what it means to act in faith and to live faithfully. Trusting Him to work in my life is sometimes difficult. Many times I'm tempted to ask, "Why me, Lord?" I get frustrated by all of the "character-building experiences" He's had me go through. But each and every time He's there just waiting for me to give all my frustrations over to Him.

You and I will have a lot to face together, I'm sure of it. That's why the wedding vows are all-encompassing. We need to stick by each other for richer, poorer; in sickness and health; from the moment we say "I do" until our last breath. I believe that's the fullness and completion of love - commitment until death. That's how Christ loved us as a man. He loved us with all He had, right up until His death.

Someday, I will make my lifelong commitment to you. I will be yours for however long God allows. Never doubt that I love you. No matter what we go through, I will be by your side as your wife for the rest of my days.

Wherever you are tonight, as I'm writing this, I'm praying for you. I'm praying that God is preparing your heart for the commitment we will one day make to each other. It may be 5 years from now or 10 years from now. I have faith in God's timing. When all is in place, you and I will be together.

I'm waiting to belong to you completely, as the Lord would have us be.
In Christ's Love,
Lauren Grace

"If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." (1st John 4:15-16)

Brad once explained that he does not just love me; he is in love with me. By that he means that our relationship is not unidirectional like the one-sided unrequited love that we see in movies or read about in silly romance novels. To be in love requires that both people be actively engaged and participating in the relationship. To quote the lyrics of DCTalk's song, "love is a verb." By definition, verbs are action words. Loving actions are born of choice. The world's oft-expressed definition of love as something that can be fallen into - as if it were an open trench along the sidewalk - downshifts love into a passive thing. The appropriate definition, based on God's word and in the context of marriage, is that true love is far from passive. </b>

Excerpted from <i>Dear Future Husband</i> Copyright (c) 2007. Lauren G. Beyenhof. Not to be reprinted without express consent from the author.
 

lightNlife

New member
An excerpt from my book <i>Dear Future Husband</i> (not intended to be judgmental, just offering my perspective on marriage)

<b>July 28, 2000
Dear Future Husband,

God does some pretty odd things to make us focus on Him and really zero in on what it means to act in faith and to live faithfully. Trusting Him to work in my life is sometimes difficult. Many times I'm tempted to ask, "Why me, Lord?" I get frustrated by all of the "character-building experiences" He's had me go through. But each and every time He's there just waiting for me to give all my frustrations over to Him.

You and I will have a lot to face together, I'm sure of it. That's why the wedding vows are all-encompassing. We need to stick by each other for richer, poorer; in sickness and health; from the moment we say "I do" until our last breath. I believe that's the fullness and completion of love - commitment until death. That's how Christ loved us as a man. He loved us with all He had, right up until His death.

Someday, I will make my lifelong commitment to you. I will be yours for however long God allows. Never doubt that I love you. No matter what we go through, I will be by your side as your wife for the rest of my days.

Wherever you are tonight, as I'm writing this, I'm praying for you. I'm praying that God is preparing your heart for the commitment we will one day make to each other. It may be 5 years from now or 10 years from now. I have faith in God's timing. When all is in place, you and I will be together.

I'm waiting to belong to you completely, as the Lord would have us be.
In Christ's Love,
Lauren Grace

"If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." (1st John 4:15-16)

Brad once explained that he does not just love me; he is in love with me. By that he means that our relationship is not unidirectional like the one-sided unrequited love that we see in movies or read about in silly romance novels. To be in love requires that both people be actively engaged and participating in the relationship. To quote the lyrics of DCTalk's song, "love is a verb." By definition, verbs are action words. Loving actions are born of choice. The world's oft-expressed definition of love as something that can be fallen into - as if it were an open trench along the sidewalk - downshifts love into a passive thing. The appropriate definition, based on God's word and in the context of marriage, is that true love is far from passive. </b>

Excerpted from <i>Dear Future Husband</i> Copyright (c) 2007. Lauren G. Beyenhof. Not to be reprinted without express consent from the author.
 

lightNlife

New member
An excerpt from my book <i>Dear Future Husband</i> (not intended to be judgmental, just offering my perspective on marriage)

<b>July 28, 2000
Dear Future Husband,

God does some pretty odd things to make us focus on Him and really zero in on what it means to act in faith and to live faithfully. Trusting Him to work in my life is sometimes difficult. Many times I'm tempted to ask, "Why me, Lord?" I get frustrated by all of the "character-building experiences" He's had me go through. But each and every time He's there just waiting for me to give all my frustrations over to Him.

You and I will have a lot to face together, I'm sure of it. That's why the wedding vows are all-encompassing. We need to stick by each other for richer, poorer; in sickness and health; from the moment we say "I do" until our last breath. I believe that's the fullness and completion of love - commitment until death. That's how Christ loved us as a man. He loved us with all He had, right up until His death.

Someday, I will make my lifelong commitment to you. I will be yours for however long God allows. Never doubt that I love you. No matter what we go through, I will be by your side as your wife for the rest of my days.

Wherever you are tonight, as I'm writing this, I'm praying for you. I'm praying that God is preparing your heart for the commitment we will one day make to each other. It may be 5 years from now or 10 years from now. I have faith in God's timing. When all is in place, you and I will be together.

I'm waiting to belong to you completely, as the Lord would have us be.
In Christ's Love,
Lauren Grace

"If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." (1st John 4:15-16)

Brad once explained that he does not just love me; he is in love with me. By that he means that our relationship is not unidirectional like the one-sided unrequited love that we see in movies or read about in silly romance novels. To be in love requires that both people be actively engaged and participating in the relationship. To quote the lyrics of DCTalk's song, "love is a verb." By definition, verbs are action words. Loving actions are born of choice. The world's oft-expressed definition of love as something that can be fallen into - as if it were an open trench along the sidewalk - downshifts love into a passive thing. The appropriate definition, based on God's word and in the context of marriage, is that true love is far from passive. </b>

Excerpted from <i>Dear Future Husband</i> Copyright (c) 2007. Lauren G. Beyenhof. Not to be reprinted without express consent from the author.
 

lightNlife

New member
An excerpt from my book <i>Dear Future Husband</i> (not intended to be judgmental, just offering my perspective on marriage)

<b>July 28, 2000
Dear Future Husband,

God does some pretty odd things to make us focus on Him and really zero in on what it means to act in faith and to live faithfully. Trusting Him to work in my life is sometimes difficult. Many times I'm tempted to ask, "Why me, Lord?" I get frustrated by all of the "character-building experiences" He's had me go through. But each and every time He's there just waiting for me to give all my frustrations over to Him.

You and I will have a lot to face together, I'm sure of it. That's why the wedding vows are all-encompassing. We need to stick by each other for richer, poorer; in sickness and health; from the moment we say "I do" until our last breath. I believe that's the fullness and completion of love - commitment until death. That's how Christ loved us as a man. He loved us with all He had, right up until His death.

Someday, I will make my lifelong commitment to you. I will be yours for however long God allows. Never doubt that I love you. No matter what we go through, I will be by your side as your wife for the rest of my days.

Wherever you are tonight, as I'm writing this, I'm praying for you. I'm praying that God is preparing your heart for the commitment we will one day make to each other. It may be 5 years from now or 10 years from now. I have faith in God's timing. When all is in place, you and I will be together.

I'm waiting to belong to you completely, as the Lord would have us be.
In Christ's Love,
Lauren Grace

"If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." (1st John 4:15-16)

Brad once explained that he does not just love me; he is in love with me. By that he means that our relationship is not unidirectional like the one-sided unrequited love that we see in movies or read about in silly romance novels. To be in love requires that both people be actively engaged and participating in the relationship. To quote the lyrics of DCTalk's song, "love is a verb." By definition, verbs are action words. Loving actions are born of choice. The world's oft-expressed definition of love as something that can be fallen into - as if it were an open trench along the sidewalk - downshifts love into a passive thing. The appropriate definition, based on God's word and in the context of marriage, is that true love is far from passive. </b>

Excerpted from <i>Dear Future Husband</i> Copyright (c) 2007. Lauren G. Beyenhof. Not to be reprinted without express consent from the author.
 
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