For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
-Ecclesiastes 3:1, NLT
Sometimes choosing divorce is the best of bad options left for a faithful spouse.
This is why I cite this wisdom verse. It is allegedly written by the wisest of all humans–bar Jesus–King Solomon.
Everything means everything.
That includes divorce, in my opinion.
Divorce is not the goal when anyone gets married. However, sometimes it is a necessary mercy to end the abuse from one of the partners who refuses to stop cheating and lying.
I am thankful for my divorce.
It set me free to have the future I enjoy today. Without my divorce, I would still be married to a woman who has yet to repent of her adulterous, deceitful abuses (to my knowledge).
I am glad that I have a new future with a new family. It was a painful season of divorce, yet it was a needed season looking back on the other option.
Whatever season this is for you, I hope you take courage and hope from my testimony. Far from being wrong to go through a season of divorce from a cheater, I have experienced the blessings of God because of it (see Matthew 19:9 and Isaiah 61:3).
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