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Tonight, I am separated, and now I'm truly alone.
New Horizon | 02/27/2002 | New Horizon

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".


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To: New Horizon
Been there, done that.

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.

21 posted on 02/27/2002 4:51:02 PM PST by DoctorMichael
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To: Senator Pardek
Wouldn't it have made more sense if rather than a strawberry, it was cheese?
22 posted on 02/27/2002 4:51:33 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: New Horizon
I said it last night, I'll say it again. You've got friends. Use them.

Baby steps, man. Baby steps.

23 posted on 02/27/2002 4:52:10 PM PST by IronJack
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To: New Horizon
A lot of us have been there. I have been alone for a long time. You get used to it. Being alone is far better than a bad relationship. If there are kids involved be there for them.
24 posted on 02/27/2002 4:52:35 PM PST by holly
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To: hole_n_one
And a moose was waiting at the bottom?
25 posted on 02/27/2002 4:53:02 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: Focault's Pendulum
Is the Brazilian teacher male or female? Makes a big difference.
26 posted on 02/27/2002 4:53:34 PM PST by Paulus Invictus
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To: New Horizon
You are never truly alone.
27 posted on 02/27/2002 4:53:37 PM PST by FreedominJesusChrist
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To: Focault's Pendulum
Is the Brazilian teacher male or female? Makes a big difference.
28 posted on 02/27/2002 4:53:57 PM PST by Paulus Invictus
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To: Senator Pardek
haha!
29 posted on 02/27/2002 4:54:11 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Paulus Invictus
Is the Brazilian teacher male or female? Makes a big difference.

Well my ad in the parer requested a brunette between 25 and 30.

30 posted on 02/27/2002 4:57:39 PM PST by Focault's Pendulum
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To: Senator Pardek
Re the strawberry parable. The other side of the sutra:

Its a wonder the man had any appetite!

31 posted on 02/27/2002 4:59:53 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: New Horizon
Okay, I can't stand it, I gotta ask.

She's liberal. Yes or no?

33 posted on 02/27/2002 5:00:38 PM PST by oprahstheantichrist
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To: New Horizon
We are praying for you. God bless and keep you.


34 posted on 02/27/2002 5:01:01 PM PST by Dubya
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To: FreedominJesusChrist
Good News For The Day

‘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.

36 posted on 02/27/2002 5:01:20 PM PST by f.Christian
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To: New Horizon
No opus, please..
This same thing happened to me in '93 or so..
It darn near killed me at the time.. but now I have
learned to live with it.. from this range it is no
longer so terrible.
But the first five years or so???
Don't ask.
37 posted on 02/27/2002 5:05:57 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: New Horizon
In your last thread, you stated that your wife would "allow" you to see the children. I (and many others) advised you to GET A LAWYER NOW. I cannot stress that enough. Cutody is not automatically given to the mother and, all things being equal, a joint custody parenting plan may be the result.

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.

Link

38 posted on 02/27/2002 5:06:02 PM PST by Polybius
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To: New Horizon
I'm more alone than you are. That's not my typical sarcastic remark, it's true. And I'm not dead yet.
39 posted on 02/27/2002 5:06:56 PM PST by real saxophonist
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