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material deemed offensive by our readership or staff. As a Thank you for contacting us! All the best, Rachel Gold Subject:Sinking In Divorce! Akiva, Someone at work gave me this address, she said you have a support page where I can talk to people who have been through situations like mine. I am religious. When I was 21, I met my husband on a shidduch. I wasn't sure if I liked him but after much pressure I got engaged. Then, when I wanted to break off the engagement because he told me 10 days before the wedding that he had certain serious addictions, I was told by a Rabbi not to break it off and he would be fine after he was married. Needless to say, I suffered 22 years of pure hell. He was never fine. He refused to work, he refused to help in the house, he even refused to learn. We went to many marriage counsilors, I kept thinking if I found the right one, things would be fine. No one could motivate him. At the last marriage counsiling session he admitted to enjoying hurting me in any way he could. The cousilor said I would be better off divorced. I filed for divorce. My husband demanded I leave my apartment that I had bought with my mother's and brother's help and give him half the money if I wanted the "get". I did everything he asked for. I still do not have my "get" because the people who bought my apartment have not finished paying for it yet. The sad part is I worked so hard for so many years when my husband never worked and because he could hold the "get" over my head, he got everything he asked for. I am stuck in a rented apartment trying to support my four children who are not yet married. He gives nothing for child support although in the agreement he was suppose to give $170 a month for the two youngest children. The hardest part is not having my "get" yet and being rid of him and able to go on with my life. He destroyed 22 years of my life. I will never be able to forget how horrible and miserable he was to me. He had no desire to do anything in life, not work, not learn, his only desire was his addictions Nothing else matters to me now but getting that "get" and waiting for it is like waiting for messiah to come. I know it will eventually happen but it didn't happen today and I'm still in a bad situation because of a mean selfish person who has no appreciation for anything that I did for him. All the best, A Shalom A, Wishing you much shalom, Rachel Gold Shalom A, After reading your letter several times the neon lights of pain brightly flash the words resentment, anger, hatred and bitterness. All of these emotions are very normal for an individual who has suffered as you have. Unfortunately your suffering may not be over even though we at JewishPath truly hope that it is. A, speaking from my own very private scare-filled experiences from a former marriage of nineteen years, waiting for conclusion is absolute hell! My former spouse was NOT Jewish. At the time I was just approaching the runway of shuvah. She became very angry at even my slight interest in Judaism. I was forced to leave my home with only the clothes on my back. My children were prevented from seeing me. I was locked out of the family business for a few weeks... I was precluded from company records for over three years even after the court ordered them returned. During this time the IRS sought legal action which I could not defend myself against becausemy former spouse, who was the former company bookkeeper, denied having these records and refused to testify in my behalf. This does not even come close to the depth of deceptions, length of lies and carefully planned schemes that I faced over the next three years while attempting to free myself from that woman. Then after gaining my freedom like a leech in the dark or a viper, G-d forbid, she wouldnít let go. Time and time again she has surfaced like a vicious shark, G-d forbid. There are several things I have found to be helpful: 1. Do not speak evil about the childrenís father. It simply will not make any POSITIVE DIFFERENCE and it will hurt the children even though they may never admit it. Do your best. 2. Change your focus from your very understandable need, ìthe Get,î to getting on with life as best as possible without it. You may never receive it but we believe you will, G-d willing! A friend tells a beautiful
story. One day while he and his wife were riding he noticed from
the passenger side of the vehicle that the van was nearly out
of gas. He suggested to his wife that she immediately find a
gas station. His wife responded, ìRelax! From my view
{as the driver} we From your view you feel stuck, but are you really? No! Honestly, I felt the same way as you do but eventually everything worked out. It did take a long time but it was for the very best. At the time it felt like I could not clean my hands of this personís filth. I just wanted to be rid of the stains of that horrible nonrelationship! I felt like time was passing by, that I was missing out on opportunities to remarry but G-d has a time. He will not be rushed and He will not be late! Eventually everything worked out. It was not always to my pleasing but it worked out. Now, thank G-d, I have been happily remarried for years. 3. A, you sound like a very good person. Yet, that being the case, it would still be wise to accept your part in this mess. I have found that acknowledging ownership for oneís part helps to recover and move on. You are to be commended for your patient attempts to seek marriage counseling but so many counselors confuse the water. 4. Many times I have had my back to the wall. Hashem has always comforted me even in the deepest of troubled waters with Psalms like 20, 40, 91 and 121. Wishing you the best, Akiva Subject: Grasping For A Jewish Name! To Whoever It May Concern: EDITOR'S NOTE THE FOLLOWING IS A JOKE FROM OUR HUMOR PAGE, "RESTSTOP" entitled: "Two Shirts You Loose". This is where our reader found the word "Mammele." Many non Jews {Christian Messianics} frequently look for some way to connect them to Judaism. If they have a Jewish first name, last name or both some then based on the name and nothing more consider themselves Jewish. A Jewish mother is worrying day in and day out about her poor son, far away in a college: "Oivey, will he ever find a nice girl,... will he have enough to eat,...will he be cold at night?" While worrying she decides to, at least, buy and send him two warm flannel shirts. A couple of months later he travels back to New York and see his mother. After many hours in a bus he arrives erev shabbat at her door and thinks: "Wait, maybe I should wear one of the shirts she sent me! Sure this makes her happy!" He puts on the shirt, rings the door bell and his mother opens: "Jankel!" "Mammele!" "Jankel, I am sooooo happy to see you!
And you even wear one of the shirts I sent you!" Dear Reader, Sincerely, Nov. 1999
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