{"id":2652,"date":"2016-08-30T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2016-08-30T14:38:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:38:27","slug":"dont-be-a-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/2016\/08\/dont-be-a-victim.html","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Play the Role of Victim in Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent plenty of time feeling sorry for myself.
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\nWhy my marriage? Why my family? Why is history repeating itself? Why are my greatest fears coming true? Why me?<\/em><\/p>\n

It is wasted time playing the victim. Albeit, human nature.
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\nI refer to it as fighting God.
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\nI couldn’t understand why a dream as simple as keeping my family together was too great to come true. I will admit that I am seldom moved to tears these days yet typing the aforementioned sentence made me fight them back. Like an old friend, I had sworn off knocking at my door.
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\nDo not be a victim.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do not make the mistake that I temporarily made.<\/p>\n

Do not fight God.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Divorce is a horrific, unwanted guest in our lives. However, every life is different. Every person is meant to walk something unique. A large, intricate puzzle that allows us to suffer different things to enable us to ease the suffering of another. <\/p>\n

I say that the days I fought God and played the victim were undoubtedly the unhappiest days I have ever known.
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\nVictims are not happy people. Victims believe their lives are out of their control. That the world is happening to them and they are powerless. Victims lack faith.<\/p>\n

Devout in my faith my entire life…I lost sight of it in my misery.<\/p>\n

A victim fights God.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A person of faith fights through the pain in order to glimpse what God has waiting for them on the other side of it.
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I just wanted to be married. I just wanted that extraordinary simple thing in life.<\/p>\n

I knew many marriages weren’t perfect. It did not matter to me. I never believed life was meant to be perfection. I myself embraced being raised by a single parent. <\/p>\n

Looking back, I find it funny…<\/p>\n

I was proud of my less than perfect and traditional start in my own family life.
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\nYet somehow I believed remaining married would provide me the perfect life.<\/p>\n

I was wrong about myself. I hadn’t truly embraced imperfection. <\/p>\n

I was instead, doing what so many of us do. I was attempting to correct the imperfections of my youth as an adult. I was trying to perfect things. I was righting old wrongs. My parents hadn’t stayed married but I somehow would.<\/p>\n

I was in denial.<\/p>\n

I was not willing to embrace the faith that helped me fight through pain in the past. <\/p>\n

I was playing the victim.<\/p>\n

I was busy fighting God.<\/p>\n

While God was waiting for me…on the other side of it.<\/p>\n

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