I went thru a real nasty divorce 25 years ago also. Only I had three daughters. My personal income doubled when the last one finally turned 18. The girls lived with their grandparents mainly because they could not stand to walk on the same ground as their bitchy mother did. Their mother remarried about ten years ago, but her and her husband have always slept in seperate bedrooms. She is mentally deranged from suffering brain damage due blood clots hitting her lungs when the youngest child was born by C section. She spent ten days in intensive care hooked up to ventilators and all sorts of stuff, but the damage was still done from lack of oxygen to the brain for too long of a time. The kids could never stand being around her for more than an hour or two, so they moved in with her parents.

Now my three lovely daughters are all married and have kids of their own. I have eight grandkids now. My baby donated one of her kidneys to her oldest son when he was four years old and suffered kidney failure. My middle daughter spent six years in Uncle Sams Navy and got out as an E-5 which outranked me when I got out of the Navy back in 1969, as I was just E-4. Youngest daughter and family are living in Rochester, Minnesota working at the Mayo Clinic and trying to put up with the sub zero temperatures and middle daughter lives in Colorado Springs where she has a high tech job as a result of her Navy training as an Electronics Technician. Oldest daughter is now 36 and living here and working at Mall Wart after having her third child last April. Her new husband also works for Mall Wart.

So hang in there, my friend. I know this is probably the worse part of your life passing under your feet at the present time. With your faith in God, I know you will preservere. I never was a really religious type and I know that hurt me a lot when I went thru it. Anybody who has not gone thru a nasty divorce themselves really does not understand all the agony us men have to go thru. It is something that a man has to go thru to really understand.
Curt