One's Girls Journey through Divorce

Ever think that life is just a bowl of cherries? Only in the movies, where the line can be edited with a blink of a eye, is that true.

I escaped my captor and fled for the hills of Northern California. I left carnage behind to be sorted out by the attorneys. How did I get here?

I was married for 19 years. A good portion of those days were ones I remember with a smile on my face. But the days started to darken, unknowingly to me, because I fought to continue to see only the good. My vision steadily narrowed until a very innocent act changed my life for ever.

It was an early July morning. I awoke to the dogs looking for food. Walking into the kitchen I found my husbands cell phone charging on the kitchen table. He had gone off to his usual 6:30 am coffee meeting with his partner, and as the alarm had awakened me from my sleep, the alarm bell in my head went off as well. I wondered what I would find if I flipped through his cell phone. He works all the time, I never see him, he goes to movies without me and hides the community money in accounts I cannot access. All seemingly innocent, right? Perhaps not.

Flipping the cell phone open I check for recently sent text messages..You know you hear about the secrets cerll phones hold. A secret I didn't really want to discover. There it was " Don't worry, I love you more...Love E". I checked the recipient of that message, and it wasn't me. In fact I stopped receiving text messages from my husbands awhile ago.

The secret was out. The hurt was mighty and the reality was impossible to ignore any longer. 19 years of marriage flushed away by a simple text message.