Hi old friends, hope you are all well. I don't get on here enough any more. Life is good, life is amazing. Thanks for all you have done for me in the past with your prayers, it helped. My daughter who had multiple suicide attempts and ran away is in college and doing wonderful! (ok, she is not back to the church, but God is working on her). New career is going well and things are great. But the real reason I am here. Today is my 28th wedding anniversary. As I have posted before, my wife and I filed for divorce twice. There was infidelity and a lot of hurt in our relationship. 10 years ago we went through Retrouvauille. Retrouvaille is a Catholic program for troubled marriages. It, along with giving myself back to God and prayer intercessions from St Faustina saved our marriage. We are now presenters and coordinators for Retrouvaille. If you know ANYONE who is thinking of divorce or struggling in their marriage worldwide, send them to HelpOurMarriage.org and let Retrouvaille try to help them. When I went, I went there so I could say "I tried" and then we could get divorced and move on with our lives. Well obviously God had other plans. I have seen time and time and time again absolutely destroyed marriages that were healed with Retrouvaille. So please when you see someone struggling send them to HelpOurMarriage.org. Never did I imagine that 10 years later we would have 4 new babies and be this happy. We really learned how to communicate for the first time in our lives. God is great!
Congratulations on your wedding anniversary! You are blessed with a wonderful family, and your daughter is doing well. So good to hear happy news!
Praise God for Retrouvaille and the renewal of your marriage. Jesus can do amazing wonders when we turn back to him! O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
Good to hear from you and see you back but really good to hear a happy marriage story as there are so many unhappy marriage stories.
I'm glad for you, wife, and daughter. We are married 26 years, so I do understand "cumulative effect" and how "weighing" the long haul can sometimes be. Like, am I married 26 or 260 years? Within the past 5 years, a lot of our friends / relatives have divorced. One in particular resulted in physical pain for me! That couple seemed truly meant for each other (they are since re-united "as friends" living separately on a large piece of property; she is now his employee besides). Marriage can be quite an adventure. And these days I'm prizing stability and calm. If children are also involved, I am not qualified to comment.
Dean, thank you for posting this. Happy and blessed anniversary to you and your lovely bride. I am extremely happy that God answered our prayers about your daughter. I know you are busy but it is good when you check in. God hears the cry of the broken hearted. He lifts the poor man off the dunghill. But He doesn’t do it overnight.
