About 6 months ago my spouse of 17 years, told me that she didn't love me anymore and that she wanted to separate/divorce me. I have been willing to reconcile and she has become very hard hearted. We have three kids that are having to deal with all of this and it breaks my heart that they are having to go through all of this. I am struggling with anxiety and depression over all of this and I am struggling financially. The kids are going to be in my custody for 6 months out of the year,and I don't know how I am going to make it. I want the best for them and I really want to save my marriage but she is so unwilling. I am so frustrated with all of this.
I do not have an answer for this problem. This type of thing is becoming rampant only due to the conditioning of thinking that is prevalent in our modern society. Everything is throw-away. If we do not think something is fulfilling our every whim, we toss it aside. I have known other guys in your situation, where the woman thinks that the grass is greener elsewhere. When they find themselves "elsewhere" it is not so green anymore and this goes for men as well, who leave their spouses for younger, firmer, tight skinned women. Sooner or later, reality catches up with them and usually it is too late, for the "new" stuff becomes "old" stuff, but sooner than the original stuff did.
It becomes a never ending cycle.......always wanting the new shiny thing, but it does not stay new and shiny.
Lives are ruined by this type of thinking. It is bad for children and bad for the husbands and wives.
Upon marriage, we make promises to one another, for life. If we cannot keep them, we had no business presenting them in the first place.
I feel for you my brother. I wish I had the words to resolve this for you, but I do not.
I wish your wife would see the whole picture, for when she gets back to Heaven, she may not feel so righteous as she does now.
Wanting is something quite different after all than is having.
May God hear your prayers and answer them to your liking. Love you, bro.