Anatomy of a Divorce
Effects of the Death of a Marriage
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It wasn’t even
When we had all gathered in the living room, Vic seated himself on the sofa next to his daughters, Dawn and
We knew this must be something terribly serious. My mind raced trying to think what it might be. Emotion welled up in all of us as Vic tearfully said that Brenda, (wife, mom, and daughter-in-law,) had met somebody on the Internet and didn’t want to be married to him anymore. The girls looked on numbly, tears rolling down their cheeks.
Vic said that it looked so serious that he felt he couldn’t avoid telling us what was happening. He assured the girls that their mother still loved them. After we had all shed tears together, we all stood in a close circle, arms around each other and prayed. If ever there was help from heaven it was needed this morning!
Brenda with her boyfriend pulled into our driveway. My husband, Harry, was working in the yard and saw them arrive. Dawn was sitting in the back seat. Harry blew her a kiss and she smiled and blew one back. Brenda came to the door and I started talking with her just as Vic arrived. She told him she had come to pick up
Without a word Brenda walked back to her car and got in and pulled the car into the driveway at the side of our house and used her cell phone. I knew she was calling the police because she had threatened doing that if anyone would refuse to let her pick up the girls one time before.
Vic said the police couldn’t do anything because when he called them at the beginning of summer when Brenda refused to return the girls, they told Vic there was nothing they could do. He even went to the courthouse and talked to a judge. But there was no help until he was able to get his lawyer to begin the emergency relief that finally got the girls back after two weeks.
After a few minutes county police officers Mondini and Schick arrived and rang the doorbell. Before Harry could get up out of the chair to answer it and before Vic got to the door the police had banged on the door with a metal flashlight leaving scratch marks on the door. The two police officers talked to Vic and then to Brenda. They escorted
The officers told Brenda that she could either leave
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About the Book
“This was the most helpful book while I was going through my divorce.”
Doug G
It’s a lonely walk through a divorce, but when family and friends are there to encourage and lift spirits, it gives great hope. The children of a broken home especially need the strength of family and God.
When all hell on earth breaks forth, how much we need the Peace that only comes from Heaven.
About the Author
“Jean Williams” is a pseudonym to protect all the parties involved in the story.