My Old Married Life

               I just got remarried and I can’t help but wonder how many people think I am nuts, or going through a midlife crisis, or just think I have gone off the deep end. I can assure you that I am not nuts, I am not going through a midlife crisis, and I have not completely lost it. It has taken me almost a year to gain the courage to write or blog about the last 13 years of my life. I haven’t talked to very many people about my first marriage, I tried very hard to never post on social media about my marital problems because that just isn’t the place for that. However, now that I have started educating myself and realized what was going on, I feel like I need to share about it.

                I didn’t just one day decide to walk away from 11.5 years of marriage, there was a lot leading up to it. Writing about the experiences in life is a great way to gain perspective, to learn, and to help heal from the pain of events that have happened. And this is also a way to bring more attention to certain issues that I feel are swept under the rug or thought to not really be issues or concerns. Over the next little while I will be writing about my experiences during my marriage and what led up to my final decision to leave the marriage.

                My marriage wasn’t good and I am finally ready to start sharing about my experience in hopes that it can help someone else. Emotional abuse, pornography addiction, manipulation, marriage within the LDS church, all of these are things that I will be writing about. Some people may think that whatever happened in a marriage that is no more, isn’t something that should be shared. My personal opinion is that if something I went through can help someone else, I definitely want to share about it.

                So here it goes I guess! More posts to come!