Awakening to the Truth: How a Spiritual Experience Ended My Marriage

When Marriage Fails: A Journey Through Divorce and Self-Discovery (Part 2 of 5)

Part 1: Marriage Isn’t Forever: Love’s Hope and Lust’s Flame

Every union starts with hope, dreams, aspirations for joy, marital bliss. Every relationship hits roadbumps, times of stress, some created by circumstance, most resulting from our reactions, pain we inflict in ignorance.

Our marriage remained through high points and low times, but beneath the facade ran a slow, steady decline, punctuated by hard crashes, inflicting wounds that wouldn’t heal.

We’d just stepped into marriage when age pressed down, making choices for us, prompting us to have a child as quickly as possible, perhaps two.

A Special Child

When our son was born, we knew something was different. He was autistic, and that reality reshaped everything.

From Denial to Acceptance: Parenting After an Autism Diagnosis

Any dreams of an easy life vanished. We had to live on one income, as our son needed her extra attention. The State offered no financial help, leaving us…