keeping my sanity

[Yoyowife]

Hope,
I think of the situation that our children have to go through and it infuriates me.

I can relate it to my life in a way. My mother died 14 years ago. My parents were true soulmates. A little over a year later my father remarried. I was so hurt. I couldn't believe that he had "replaced" my mother. I now realize it wasn't that he "replaced" her, he found a woman that could fill the void in his life and love her.

What I'm trying to say is that I was so hurt at first that my dad had remarried. He remarried because my mother died. He didn't choose to end his relationship with my mother. I must admit because of my grief it took me a while to accept my stepmother. Thankfully, I now have a good relationshiop with my stepmother and am so glad that my father found someone to share the rest of his life with. I can't imagine the hurt and anger that our children go through when a parent chooses someone else over a parent that they love and destroys their family.

Hang in there my friend. We will all make it through this and be better people because of it. We just have to remember that the man upstairs always knows best.