Anyone GLAD to be divorced?

[ido]

The ONLY regret that I have is that I have to share my kids with him. His abuse was not severe enough to get his visiting right taken away. It seems when there are kids who are on the verge of being killed by their parent's abuse or neglect, lesser abuse is not a big deal to the court. Not that I don't want the ones being seriously harmed to not get help, its just that there is certainly more that could be done for others. Anyway...

I had tried so hard for so long to work it out. The only thing that happened from him was lame attempts to look like he was being good, a gradual progression from bad to worse. The abuse was escalating. I wasnt going to wait around for something more disasterous to happen.

I divorced firmly planted in the knoweledge that it was the right choice and God was setting me free.

I could have pretty much written this post myself.

 

[JohnDB]

I am happily remarried these days. I love my wife bunches and bunches.

But I am anything but happy to be divorced.

I see the callousness that was formed in my own heart from the divorce and I hate that callous with a passion.

I see the hurt from the divorce on my son's life and I hate the divorce even more.

I see the blindness that caused me to marry that witch in the first place and continue to try to hold together a marriage that wasn't worth saving and regularly kick myself because of it.

I have been appointed by God to perform certain tasks and my marriage to her was a deviation from those tasks. I shoulda never married her and stayed with the original programm. But since God is one who can pull a rose out of a manure pile every time...I will have to deal with what good things I missed out on that were mine for the taking but I ignored and chased after something else instead that was manure

I am anything but happy that I am divorced. But I can adapt and overcome with a lot of help from God. (OK...so He is doing most of the hard stuff and I am along for the ride...but it sounds good)

 

[SearcherKris]

Hey, John. God happens to be good at softening callouses.

I believe it will get better for you.