Hi everyone. Well it's been almost six months since I've posted anything here, and it's not to say that God has stopped working in my life, because this whole experience that I'm going through is definitely proof of God's presence.
When I first started here, I was still new to being a Christian. Because of how low I felt in life, I do believe that the Holy Spirit embraced me and gave me hope that everything will be okay, and since then I have been on a divine journey, so I'm here to update all of you that helped me through the beginning to get me where I am now.
Originally I named this thread "Satan Has My Wife", and if I were to start it new today, I would also name it "Satan Has My Wife".
So back on the 27th day of August of 2013, when everything was falling apart, my wife had a trial date for her DUI. She took the bus there, and on her return home she stopped in at her local pub for a drink. There she ran into an older women who she knew from the pub. The woman was there with her son, a fifty year old man who my wife met for the first time on that day, we'll call him "Buddy". So Buddy and my wife got acquainted and she poured out her life story to him. She told him about the drinking and driving charges that she's trying to fight, and she expressed how miserable she was in her marriage, and Buddy convinced her that he could solve all her problems. He told her that he had friends that could clear her charges, and he told her that she was living with a man that didn't appreciate her and didn't treat her the way she should be treated. He offered her a place to get away from home and that he would take care of her until she was ready to go back. So she disappeared and moved in with him and a roommate, in an apartment just a few blocks from home.
At that time I was frantic. She said nothing to her family and just fell off the face of the earth. That's when I had the court order done, to have her found and assessed. But not even the police could find her. A month passed, and no matter what we tried, we couldn't get a hold of her, we had no idea where she was, we were all thinking the worst now and I was talking to the detectives about putting her as a missing person on the news.
The day after I had mentioned that to the detectives, they showed up at my house and told me that they'd found her. They told me that she was living with this guy Buddy and that she seemed happy. They told me that she mentioned to them that was going to file for divorce because she no longer wanted to be with me. I was in shock! But I felt God's peace... I knew that He wasn't going to abandon me now. The detectives still held the court order to have her taken to the hospital, and they did. They said she went peacefully, and upon arrival at the hospital, she left two hours later. Her mother tried to see her, and my wife told the hospital security to get her mother out.
After that I fell for awhile, I actually started believing that God didn't exist. Here I was now with four kids that I was now fully responsible for, I had a full time job, a house that was an absolute disaster, and I was alone. I began falling into earthly temptations, I was trying my hardest to find any woman that would just jump into bed with with me, I was angry at my wife, I was angry at God, I was angry at myself. I know this is going to be hard to believe, but God was there with me, He blocked me from committing any sin that I would later regret. Sometimes I would even look up to the heavens and laugh and say, "you gotta be kidding me!". He would not let me stray.
On October 2nd, my youngest son got sick with the flu. I was instantly reminded of how their mother abandoned us, so I broke the silence between me and her. I texted her phone, I wrote a very angry message and I cursed her actions. Within minutes, I got a return text, and it was Buddy! He was angry at what I wrote to her and he threatened me. Needless to say that most of that conversation didn't go over well, but in the end I felt vented and now I knew the type of person she was with. Towards the end of the conversation, when most of the anger dissipated, he did promise to take good care of her and get her help. I had to let go.
During the month of October, I filed for custody papers because I had no idea what her intentions were, she would visit us randomly, and I was afraid that she would take the kids. I waited for her to show up on one of her random visits to have the papers served to her because I still didn't know where she lived.
Finally on October 31st, she popped by because she wanted to take the kids out. I walked with her, we talked and even though I still didn't agree what she was doing with our lives, I felt bad for her and didn't serve the papers. She was painting the picture that Buddy was now controlling her... he was obsessed with her, he even tattooed her name on himself... she had sold her soul to the devil! She wasn't allowed to go anywhere without his permission, all phone calls that she made were monitored by him, and what I found out much later, when she went home that night, he beat her so bad that she was unable to leave her house for a month.
Early December 2013, my phone rings at 3:30 in the morning, I grab it quick and see her number, when I pick it up I hear her, hes beating me! Help me. I had no idea where she was living at the time, so a called the police. An hour later she had walked to my place. That night I had Buddy arrested.
He spent a month in jail... she spent some time with her family and as soon as he got out of jail, she was back with him. A few weeks ago I spoke to her again and she told me how she now has new injuries, bruised ribs, internal bleeding in her neck and a broken cheek bone which requires reconstructive surgery. I have offered to help her to get out of the situation she is in, but she has to want it ... I can t keep going in to save the day only to have her keep going back. I have told her that if she wants her life back, she needs to go live with family and go through counselling until she gets back on her feet.
My life now is amazing... I have the support of family and friends .. my children are happier than I ve ever seen them. There is only positive energy in my home now. People feel the glow coming from us. There are still days that I feel a little down, but God has given me the strength to keep me on His path and what a glorious path it is. What has transpired in my life is something only a loving God could do!
I'm not happy with what's happening to her, in no way do I think she deserves it. I pray for her daily, and I do know that one day our Lord will also embrace her with His grace, but until then, I leave it all in His hands.