Posted on 02/27/2002 4:33:04 PM PST by New Horizon
I posted a thread last night entitled:
Tonight, I am officially separated.
I am frightened, I have no family, I am alone...I have nobody but you guys to turn to. I received much valuable advice from fellow FReepers, which I expected. Why else would I post that type of "vanity"?
For some reason, my thread was pulled. Thank God I can salvage at least some of the intelligent replies were via FReepMail. Unfortunately, I never made it through the entire thread. I believe it was a good thread, for more than just my own selfish interests.
If I was rich (which is unlikely now) I would contribute to a forum like this. I'm not. I won't be.
If this thread is pulled, consider it my "opus".
I have no profound insights or cures having gone through it myself. Just remember:
1) What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
2) You are a survivor.
Baby steps, man. Baby steps.
Well my ad in the parer requested a brunette between 25 and 30.
Its a wonder the man had any appetite!
She's liberal. Yes or no?
‘If only for this life, we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.’ (1 Corinthians 15:19)
During the last century, hope-like the ozone layer-began disappearing with alarming rapidity. The modern world had embraced the doctrine of inevitable progress. Mankind was sufficiently clever to so arrange his environment, as to ensure a better world. Humanity was on an unstoppable march to Utopia.
Few people think that now. We have entered the era of post-modernism. God has been sacked. We no longer need him. He became for us, and unnecessary hypothesis. But with God gone, life has been leached of hope. Once it was taken for granted, that when it came to fortifying individuals for the hard knocks, religion had the answers. Religion was a source of meaning-therefore, of hope.
In a universe without God, other elements... of reality---loom larger....pain, sorrow, and death take his place, as absolutes. Diane Ackerman, a telephone crisis counselor, in New York state, has written a book about her work entitled, " A Slender Thread." She is more aware than most, that in every city street, people are overwhelmed by life. They find it too difficult, too harsh, too painful, too sad.
Callers are loaded down with guilt; tons of self-reproach. Their nerves are frayed by worry. Some experience waves of uncontrollable anger. Some are are abused and battered; some depressed and lonely. In an average city, 12.4 persons per one hundred thousand kill themselves. Given that God, the ground of all hope, has been dismissed, it is a wonder that more do not commit suicide. Jean Paul Sartre posed that question to himself: "Why don't I commit suicide?"
The meaning of human beings is that they should 'love God and enjoy him for ever.' Only so, do they live in hope.
In my own state, joint custody is the starting point and custody is yours to lose. I did a little research on Michigan and it seems to have a 12 point system of considerations.
This web site by a Michigan divorce attorney seems very informative. I linked the page specifically dealing with custody.
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