Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Divorce Happens! (copy of message I wrote to a friend.)

I hope you will pray about it first. Be careful! Don't let people on Facebook or the internet influence you because you think their posts say they have such well-adjusted lives! Make sure you are not looking for greener pasture. There are men out there who will say anything! I didn't date for five years and since 2010, I thought I had found Mr. Right three times!lol

Find a church that has DivorceCare. Google it and get in a group! They have Christian mechanics, help for a single woman!

Be extremely precise to have everything in the divorce provide for you if he still has bills that affect you, like the house payment. Make sure it is in there to keep insurance in case he gets hurt and can't work or dies. My ex-husband was hurt on the job and couldn't pay child support. Then he died recently and has left my house in foreclosure. Our divorce agreement died with him because there wasn't a clause in the divorce for him to keep life insurance.

Sometimes I think I am still grieving over our divorce. But I am thankful I got out when I did. I stayed with him too long and now I have post traumatic stress syndrome from being with an alcoholic so many years and have to take medication for flashbacks! God filled me with the Holy Spirit on August 15, 2004. Without Him, I would not still be here. Ask your single friends to suggest a loving church where the divorced are welcomed and ministered to. And, look up DivorceCare and be helped through them. It's a lot more than just you or him moving out and signing a piece of paper!

I will be praying for you!