My nightmare came later when my family took my ex's side over mine all the time. My dad even wanted to take him on a family vacation cruise with us ...and I had been remarried for 10 years by then! Of course, I said no and never told my husband. He would have been heartbroken and still doesn't know to this day. He thought my family liked him. They are so fake. They just worshipped my first and disliked my second. My second was not in a high enough class to be in our family.

Not to minimize your suffering, because that's still unbelievable to me, but it goes to show you may sail through the divorce but something will come back to bite you in the ass eventually. Divorce sucks, even when it improves our lives, someone else will try to beat us down about it. Failure is a big word that sticks in my mind way too often.