I know that I will be Okay without my wife. It will take some more time to adjust and there will be losses and damages (financially, emotionally, psychologically, etc.), but I am confident that eventually my kids and I will come out of this strong and successful. And I have full faith in God. This is why deep down in my heart, I am not all that worried.

I know what I am about to say will sound cheesy, but many times what disturbs me is not what will happen to me and to my kids. It's what has happened to my W, and mostly the fact that she has lost faith in God. She had been such a good believer and had such good moral values. I feel sad to see what has happened to her.

She is an early childhood educator, meaning that she works with young children (4 to 12 years old) all the time. It just seems so contradictory that she is neglecting her kids and in my view losing her good moral values, while influencing such innocent children.

A funny anecdote: a few months ago when we were still talking, she told me about a training she was taking as part of her job. It was a group exercise where each educator had to draw something showing the different interactions in their job. Apparently, all the other educators drew the children in the center and then all the different stakeholders (teachers, parents, educators, etc.) around them. She was the only one who drew herself in the center and everyone else around her. She felt a little embarrassed telling me the story, but she was laughing about it. I laughed as well, but inside I was feeling really sad for her.


Me:49 XW:41, M:18 years, Kids: S18,S14
BD:JULY 2017, W moved out: DEC 2017
Filed for D: APR 2019, D Final: JULY 2019