For years I spent so much of my energy on a fool that I didn’t have enough left over to deal with regular parenting.I used to forget and still expect that I could explain my side and he would finally see. Or he would finally do the right thing for our kid. *Spoiler Alert* He never did.
Read more...I was stuck in a loop of negative thinking. I desperately wanted a better life for myself and my daughter. I wrote these words in my journal.
Read more...There was no boundary he wouldn’t cross just to keep the drama going. Separating and divorcing didn’t change any of it. Here’s what I discovered.
Read more...He was trying to lead me down a path where I was the one who did something wrong. This happens to us all until we get a strategy to stop playing into their questions so they can’t lead us down the path of defending ourselves, destroying our credibility.
Read more...I wanted to release the ex from the harm that he's done to me and my kid so that I could feel better. You could call that forgiveness, but it was more like 'release and detach'. Yet I couldn't do it. And I definitely couldn't forgive. I couldn't even pray.
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