Marriage to divorce
By rawpoet
@rawpoet (2045)
United States
August 30, 2008 10:47pm CST
If you're one of the people who had to deal with getting divorced, what was your first reaction when the final divorce papers came in the mail?
For me, even though I was the one that filed, I cried my eyes out because I tried so hard to keep the family together, which made me feel like a failure. I finally snapped out of it, and rejoiced within an hour.
1 response
@cherkeygrl (39)
• United States
31 Aug 08
Pretty much same as yours except add in there that I felt like I wasted 13 years. I also felt sad to let go of the dream of what he COULD have been. After I left the second one I feel nothing but relief to get out and alive again. I still feel sad about the first though. We could have been such a great family but his drinking and womanizing ruined it. I see him now and think what a waste. He is still drinking and with women that I seriously can only call street scum...the bar hopping til they die types you know? My son has grown (he is 18 now) to be a good man despite of all of this but he is a joker type...always looking for attention since his dad ignored him for women and drink. He was always with his aunt or grandparents when 'with' dad. I feel sorry for all of us.
