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Dear brothers and sisters,

I have already posted a prayer request on the subject where I need advice. I seem unable to post the link, as I have not enough posts until now.........I have posted it in the prayer section, it is called "I seem unable to heal". I will copy it at the end of this message, I apologize in advance to the moderators for "doubling" a message.


I need to understand why I feel in this way and on what terms I have to "catalogue" this experience. please....give me ANY advice you think can help me to heal from this situation! I am TIRED to suffer.....I want to heal. I want to understand. I want to be guided, and healed. Thank you in advance, may God bless you all.

This is what I put in the prayer section:

Dear brothers and sisters,

may God bless you all. I introduce myself here, I have been searching the net for a Christian forum where to post this request. I write from Europe and please forgive me if I make mistakes in writing in English. I apologize for being long, but my story is complicated, and maybe I need advices and not simply prayers. I am a separated woman of 40. My separation happened 4 yrs ago and it was painful. I have made big mistakes and I have suffered a whole lot. Now I live alone with my youngest child who is 7. Money is tight. Loneliness is difficult to bear. I went back to the church three months ago ( I accepted Christ as my Lord and Saviour ten years ago. But life made me abandon the church. I have fully paid this choice, with an incredible amount of mistakes and suffering) and I am trying my best to put things right. But I am full of wounds and the last one has been the final straw. While writing I am crying my eyes out. I am still new to the church even if I attend it regularly three times a week. But I confided just in one sister or two. In moments like now, when the pain seems to literally eat my heart, I feel desperately alone. I need the support of my brothers and sisters. I am frail, I do not want to do other mistakes because of my weakness and disappoint again the Lord.
This is my last wound.
About one year ago, I meet this man. I was out of a very particular situation-another wound. He knew it. He was separated like me, two children, like me, he seemed to look for a serious commitment in a relationship, like me. It was beautiful. He had a sort of a rush in doing things: he wanted to meet our children, he gave me a ring, he phoned three times a day, he seemed so in love. I needed so much to love and be loved, I felt so happy! He worked as a ....I do not know the word, he is an informatic, he follows the servers of big firms here. Last Christmas he told me: your PC is old, give it to me so I enlarge your memory and I put some music in it. I said okay, of course. A bit after that,his temper tantrums started, apparently with no reason. He started not answering the phone for three days if I said a word "not opportune". He scolded me violently in front of the children ( we did not live together but we saw each other often) because I spilled some wine or I did not cook properly, or because I did not wash properly the dishes in his opinion. He sent me to do the shopping in his town ( which was a different one from mine) but I got lost and he scolded me. But it was not my town, it was a big town and is not so easy by car without gps.He was jealous of people who did not mean anything to me. I was already in love and I tried my best to save the relationship. It gave him the occasion to humiliate me in many different ways. I am ashamed of many things I did. I have been so stupid. After the last row, I had an illumination( I already suspected that). I brought my PC to a technical and he found TWO differet kinds of spyware, two programs for spying everything on my pc : the first one which sent somewhere by mail everything I digitated on the keyboard, and a second one to send any document in the documents section.
I went to confront him with the report in my hands. I felt so weak and sad, i was not able to drive but I went. I told him: you have two children like me! I do not want to report you to the police, explain this to me, apologize, reassure me you will not use these information and it will be enough for me. He laughed in my face. He told me I was crazy, he told me I was a weak and confused person and that I pretended to be christian but I did not know who I was and what to choose. He shouted "Do you understand or not that I do not care anything about you! You mean nothing to me!"
I went home in tears. I was in a sort of blackout for two weeks. Then my brother warned me against not reporting him. In fact there was an incredible amount of sensible info about my whole life in the pc: my diary, my emails. He had the password of the bank, of the phone, of the emails, of MSN. Everything.
I felt completely betrayed and in the same time so guilty. I thought it was my fault, that clearly he was right in putting me under control because I was unreliable and I demostrated it, that clearly I had disgusted him or something I had written. But I also suffered so much and I understood I could not stay without the Lord anymore. I was really like the prodigal son, I had been eating the food of pigs for too long. I went back to the church and asked the pastor what to do. He advised me to report him to the police which I did.
But I still wonder: was it my fault? Why have I been rejected so much? It must be beacuse of me. Have I lost the only true love of my life? Why do I miss him so much even if he was cruel to me? Am I no more able to reason properly? I feel so sad. So wounded. So alone. I am trying my best to put the Lord first. I have been asking Him : please do me justice. You are my justice. Will He listen to me? Will He answer me? I feel so alone and so betrayed and so sad. Please pray if you can. Thank you..................
 

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:prayer: I am & will be praying for you.

God used this to draw you back to Him.

Trust God to give you what's best.

God will be your husband until He shows you the helpmate He has for you.

Lean on Lord, when your not strong, He'll be your friend & help you carry on.

:hug: A hug from God.
 
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I feel sorry for what you have been trough. I wish that I had some advice to give you, something that would help you. Maybe there is some women here that could give some good answers.

What I guess is the reason for what you miss is the love you had for him a while, and then you mistake this feeling of happiness you had, with the person. So I think that you don't really miss this man, but you miss love and to see the end of your loneliness, and that you miss this so much that you would even take unhappiness to find it. But it would be a bad idea to have anything more to do with a man that only wants to hurt you. Stay away from him, and you won't be hurt more.

You should just trust God and put all these things in His hands, and ask for His will to happen with your life. If you trust Him then I know that you won't see any more disappointments.

Just prayed for you. God bless you.
 
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But I still wonder: was it my fault?
People like that have a hole in there heart, the only way they know to fill it is with the destruction of another person. I think them to be social vampires, they may look and act normal for a while then they "feed" on you sucking the life from you and when there done, they leave you with an undead feeling. And thru all of that somehow you feel obligated to them.

Why have I been rejected so much?
There is no way for me to be sure from what you left, but some of us subconsciously look for "toxic" relationships. Was your father or father figure a man like this?
There are decent people out there. you have to learn to look for the "warning signs" of a toxic person and no matter how lonely you feel cut the relationship off before you become too invested or don't involve yourself with a toxic person to begin with.

It must be because of me. Have I lost the only true love of my life?
The Idea of "True love" is a greeting card company and story book writers tool. Love (proven by God) Is a choice. we can love anyone or anything. Look at how awful this man was to you and if you ask his kids (while they are still young) if they love him or not I'm sure the answer will be an absolute yes. There is another man out there some where that will compliment your attributes and your flaw well. it a matter of weeding thru the "chaff" in order to find the wheat, and having the self control not to "fall" for the first thing with a pulse.

Why do I miss him so much even if he was cruel to me?

There is a saying in the southern states.. "The funny thing is, If you beat a Dog long and hard enough, eventually he with think he has done something to deserve it." This beaten or whipped dog syndrome is a way of the truly deprived to inspire loyalty and respect from the abuse and destruction of a "person's" self respect. You eventually look to the abuser for your needs, your self respect and love. He "beats you" into dependency..
Am I no more able to reason properly?
This is question that needs to be answered by a professional consular/psychiatrist. Because there isn't enough for anyone to go on here. I suggest you seek a good christian consular in your area. Some people can bounce back from this and others can not. Someone trained in how the mind works will be better suited to help you determine this.


I feel so sad. So wounded. So alone. I am trying my best to put the Lord first. I have been asking Him : please do me justice. You are my justice. Will He listen to me? Will He answer me?
He will, but the Justice your looking for may not come in the form your expecting. So, when you cut this person completely from your life don't look back!
or it may corrupt the rest of your life looking what you feel to be proper justice.

I feel so alone and so betrayed and so sad. Please pray if you can. Thank you..................

You have my prayers, and I'm sure of all those who read this request. Even so, Don't fool yourself into thinking God will resolve this magically. The Lord has put into place a series of steps that any of us can take to seek help from abuse. So again I urge you to seek help for this thru a consular.
 
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I unfortunatley have experience with a relationship like you described. I won't get into the details, but will say that God used that experience to bring me to my knees. It is thru that experience that I was drawn closer to God and while it was a horrific experience, I don't regret it. Without that experience I wouldn't be where I am now in my faith.

Please let me reinerate, you do not deserve the treatment you received. You do deserve better. There is someone out that who will love you the way you should be. After my experience, God brought me the most amazing man, to whom I am now married.

Put your faith in God, go to him with your sorrow. He will comfort you and guide you.

If you want to talk further, please feel free to send me a private message.
 
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When you come to the place where you REALLY find that JESUS CHRIST is all you have, then you SHALL find HE'S all you need.

It's time to pick up GOD'S WORD and read it till when you read it again you will already know what it's going to say. You SHALL find that it is then imprinted upon your heart and you SHALL be prepared for the MISSION GOD has for just you.

What you are really missing but don't realize it is GOD bestowing HIS HOLY SPIRIT upon you. In order to receive this you must first give HIM your WHOLE life.

When that happens you will find that what you are going through was a BLESSING that brought you to GOD.


ALWAYS REMEMBER:

JESUS IS RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE AT!!! EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T SEE HIM!!!

( left click and hold over the above to see your personal message )
 
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i am so sad for you, you have had a terrible experience. you have learned some very hard things about yourself and what you are willing to do to have what you thought was love, though it was not.

i am very proud that you were so brave to report him, what he did was illegal.

you MUST take this time in your life to speak to a counselor to help you become stronger and not vulnerable to this type of person in the future.

please keep us updated so we can pray for you as time goes on.
 
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:hug:I thank all the people who are giving me their prayers and support. May God bless you all. Forgive me if I sound annoying but I need your support right now. Please continue to pray for me. I need to go on for my children, I want to heal. Do not leave me alone if you can. Thank you, may the Lord really bless you.
 
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My leader has just delivered yesterday, her second child, so of course now I cannot disturb her. I have a sister whoo is really helping me. Other people.....I am quite ashamed in confiding. You will tell me: you wrote it on a message board! I know, but on the net it is easier.
 
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