![N. Smith – …the wound caused by missing actions on [my father’s] part is definitely still there in my adulthood](https://thembeforeus.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/andrew-neel-f480QIEvwGI-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
Michael – …for all of those years, it was more important to keep denying that children need fathers
I am speaking up about these events for the first time in my life, at the age of 36, because no child should ever have to endure what I did, of which what I wrote is a mere summary, sparing many details and protecting many guilty parties of even more than I write. My...
Hannah T. – I have sat on my grandma’s couch more than once crying, asking why my life turned out different than my siblings
My parents divorced when I was 11 years old. There are 5 of us children and I’m in the middle. When I was young, my father was a preacher, and I became a born-again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 6. During this part of our childhood our mom was a...
Emmaline – As I look back now I see the impact divorce has had on me…I fear for my marriage and that of my siblings. I don’t want us to continue the cycle. It has to end.
I was raised in a Christian family by a loving Christian couple in the 90’s and early 2000’s. In the Midwest where there is a church on every corner, we grew up going to a Christian school and supportive church. It was in my early teenage years when divorce started to...
