Comments on: Comment at Empath’s (on Divorce) https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/04/comment-at-empaths-on-divorce/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:48:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Frank https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/04/comment-at-empaths-on-divorce/comment-page-1/#comment-3563 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:13:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=4036#comment-3563 My marriage broke up after my wife shoved off with someone else’s husband. I waited for the immense stupidity of this path to take it’s course and her to return chastened. Nature took its own course instead as children of this action appeared, and they got married. I had never stopped praying for her but I rarely stopped feeling sorry for myself. It hurt deeply. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Fellow believers weren’t much help, advising I was married forever or wishing an unattached woman my way. I got all spiritual and did mission work for a few years, hoping for ‘whatever I don’t know’ in my personal life. I was treading water all round. I gradually got back into a career and let the trees lie where they fell. Twelve years later I remarried.

On reflection here’s what I’ve learned. I was a spiritual ninny, wallowing around in sanctimonious self pity and unforgiveness, carried about by every wind of doctrine and mostly on the bones of my backside. That is not an attractive picture to any woman who may be contemplating their folly in abandoning the marriage and thinking about going back. I was my own worst enemy. My advice is to use the freedom you have to use your gifts and talents to better yourself. Ask the Holy Spirit to direct your life forward, not back. Forgive the other party totally, as often as it takes, and move on with no expectations of being justified or them ‘learning their lesson’. The marriage was over the moment they moved to another man’s bed and decided to stay there or hop to another one.
Women and men are supposed to complement each other but it doesn’t always work that way and you can live very happily without them. I had only one brief dating relationship during my years on my own and I don’t think I even needed that to play out. It’s more fulfilling not being needy.

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