It has been a long time since I have posted. And I have to share a little, ok maybe a lot....
It was just over a year ago I felt my life break apart and there was little I could do about it. My husband of 16 years, on our anniversary received a text from a friend a couple of friends actually. I read the text over and over again, not really believing what I saw. He was talking about their lips together and pleasing each other sexually. Yes I was seeing that my husband had slept with this gay couple he had just met.
What was I going to do? I turned to God and my christian lady friends at work and church. I tried to make sence of it all. Finally I realized I had to go on living, crying was not helping the situation. Knowing that I would not be able to pay the house payment, i decided to start packing up my stuff and most of the kids clothes and some small amounts of furniture.
I had a place at the nature trails, so we would temporarily stay there until I could find a full time job and a 4 bedroom house where the rent was affordable. Then I checked the mail, and there before me was a repo letter for my van. My "wonderful" husband had stopped paying the van payment, it hadn't been paid in 4 months. In fact most of the bills had not been paid. What was I going to do. I had only had 2 very low paying part time Jobs and I could barely feed my kids let alone pay 2800 for the van that was to be paid in 2 weeks. I was separating and no money, I went to my favorite place to pray in the morning, and pray I did.
God led me to put my last 80 into the offering that morning, i had to trust God to help me. When I went to the home I would soon be completely moved out from, i noticed an envelope from my old employer, it had been sitting there for 2 weeks. I opened it, and i fell to my knees and thanked god, he is so good.
There in my hands was a check for 3400 in back pay. Enough money to pay off the van, get food in the house and buy a small flat screen TV to fit in the cramped trailer I was moving me and my kids into.
I would love to say that there has been no fighting over this process, but I started to learn of some really bad things my ex was doing around my kids when they were with him. He was physically abusive, mentally controlling and walking around nude and having my son take nude pictures of him. I turned him into CPS, and put a restraining order against him.
I was brought to court for unpaid lones, which I now have a garnishment against my wages for.
He now has time with the kids, but the kids don't want to be around him. He moved his boyfriend into the house about a month after we moved out. I still have things in that house, but will probably never see them again.
He is behind in child support, and i get told today, that I don't qualify for food stamps because I make to much money. .. the garnishment can not help me, because it isn't child support related.
I know God will provide, but I'm sure it's because I failed. I went on a dating site, actually I was on several. I met a guy and went out on a couple of dates. I was feeling so lonely, i know it's wrong and completely against my beliefs, but I slept with him. No my kids were not around, they were with their dad. I couldn't believe it, i was so dumb, he stopped talking to me, couldn't figure out what happened. Found out he went to visit his old girlfriend. When he did talk to me again, he apologized, brought me flowers, i melted, and after a drink, i made the mistake of sleeping with him again. Both times he had erectile dysfunction. I told him it didn't matter, we could work it out together. By this time I had strong feelings for him. But again, completely stopped talking to me.
So what do I do, i go online and start talking to someone, he seemed to gently care for me, and had a strong christian background. So i invited him to come over to my place, and walk down to the town carnival and walk around. I must have felt way to comfortable with him, because again I slept with someone I barely knew. Only this time, he did continue to talk to me, at least he did until I had to leave town to take my oldest kids to Oregon to meet my daughter's biological family. He did not talk to me, except to inform me that I might have an Std. And a chance I might get pregnant.
No thank the Lord I was not pregnant, but yes, I definitely had an std. By this time the first guy texted me and wanted to celebrate a victory in his life. But when I told him by text that I had been with someone else, he called me, he was so sweat and sincere in his thoughts and feelings about me. So i fell for him again. A week later, he came to see me. Then I texted no response, what was going on.... i told him I could not have that kind of relationship, i still haven't heard from him. ..
Then the second one, well we came to an end too. Now him, i have actually shed tears because of what he said to me. He said he was starting to fall in love with me, but he could not remain loyal, he needed to have sex and there was no way I could ever be away from him, but that wasn't all. He said that a relationship with me would be impossible because we lived to far apart, 25 miles, ya ok. But the worst of the statements made by him... he was embarrassed to be seen in public places with me, because of what people would think of him....
So today, I'm just wondering, is there really no guy out there, looking for a loyal loving lady like me? Or am I doomed to date jerks and a..holes all my life. ..