Ex-JW Mother attempts suicide with children and fails! My Family Tragedy

by Utopian Reformist 1241 Replies latest members private

  • love2Bworldly
    love2Bworldly

    Glad to hear from you! Have a safe trip overseas, and please know you are in our thoughts and prayers.

  • cruzanheart
    cruzanheart

    Good to hear from you, Mario!!! Enjoy Italy and Buenos Aires, gain strength from your family, and HANG IN THERE!!!

    Hugs,

    Nina

  • bebu
    bebu


    Mario! Thanks for writing and sharing what's going on, both good and bad.

    I am glad to hear that you will be able to be with your family, Mario. I think they can help you adjust. I think Dr. Rando will be of invaluable help to you as well, and I urge you to keep that in view.

    It's good to read that you have a job now. I hope that it will work out for the time that you need it. I'm very sorry and angry to hear about the divorce court trouble. I think you must decide to prepare for a worst-case scenario with that. If you get something better than worst-case, then you will feel a little better. (I just don't get the legal system/divorce court... is it everywhere like that, or is it just in RI????)

    Being honest here... It is hard to read how much you want to destroy some people, even though I realize that this is the outworking of grief and anger at their zenith. I'm glad that you have been sober for awhile; remember that that drunken spiel didn't help resolve anything, and didn't really dull much pain in the long run. You really need a miracle to overcome these emotions that, left unguarded, will destroy YOU and subsequently destroy MARINA. So I'm praying for that miracle, which I think must be forgiveness.

    Please truly forgive Marina. It is asking a lot, I know. Forgiveness is, by nature, something completely undeserved-- If anyone deserved it, it wouldn't be forgiveness. If you completely resolve to forgive her, from your heart, then you know that you could not, under any circumstance you are describing, go thru with any of the ideas you think about. Because if you did, you realize that would be expressing your indifference as to whether she killed herself. She could easily interpret it as outright encouragement. If you forgave her, truly forgave her, the creation of such a situation would be unthinkable. And a window for healing inside yourself can open.

    ((((Mario)))) You know I'm praying for you, for light at the end of the tunnel.

    And we all DO appreciate when you update, and share your honest feelings, even when not "socially correct". We care about your healing very much, and send you all our best wishes.

    bebu

  • vitty
    vitty

    Oh, Mario please hang in there. You have a future, maybe through Marina, she will marry one day and have children of her own. She loves you. She needs you now please be strong.

    Dont let her grandparents have the control they want. They will never compare to you. In the end she will want YOU.

    I dont know what it would be like to have a child torn away from me, but of course you miss her, I know friends who have lost children in accidents or illness, but this is so different. You need all the professional help you can get, because no.one really knows what your going through at least these ppl know how your feeling.

  • Emma
    Emma

    Mario,

    It's so good to see you posting; thanks for letting us know how you're doing. We're keeping you close in our hearts and prayers that you can take strength from us.

    Your address somehow turned up on my desk this afternoon so I am reminded to send a little note via snail mail, too.

    How wonderful that you are going abroad this summer; I hope you'll find relief and healing among your family.

    Please keep taking care of yourself - Emma

  • hubert
    hubert

    Dear Mario,

    Thanks for the update, and p.m. I'm glad you are starting to get your life back. I know it's hard, but do it for you and Marina. Keep busy. Time heals. I know you will never forget all that has happened, and I'm not suggesting that you forget. I look forward to seeing the web site in Talia's memory.

    Please keep getting the help you really and truly need. It's okay to think of all the bad things you want to do for revenge, but Mario, just think it, but don't do it. Nothing good will really come of it.

    Think good thoughts, and keep on working and build a life for you and Marina. Keep posting.

    Have a happy reunion with you relatives. Say hello to them for me, and tell them I am rooting for you.

    Your "long lost" brother,

    Hubert

  • gdt
    gdt

    Goodaye Mario,

    How good to read of such good things happening, to you and from you......really nice. How very pleasant the friends on this board are, shows a deep internal love and feelings for you and your girls. Please never forget that just as Tania is alive in your heart and mind, how easy it is to understand that she is also 'living' from God's point of view, and he will fix all things in his time. It's not up to us, is it? Bebu gave some beautiful advise about handling your revenge feelings, easy to say, hard to apply. I still, 20 years ago, get really frustrated (is it angry?) at the drunk driver who killed my wife and mother of my 4 kids. He was in jail 9 months only, Yet his stupidity caused so much hurt to this day, to all my kids and me.

    But, we are supposed to 'love our enemies', Jesus did not qualify that with 'except...this one or that one' or 'this faith or that faith'. So hang on in my friend, feel better every day as it sounds like you do. And enjoy your July trips. Austalia is a bit out of the way, isn't it?

    Special thoughts for you all, you, your daughter, your ex-wife, and her side of the family, you have all had much hurt and surely deserve much peace and pleasantness. Laughing all weekend with your daughter was worth more than all the riches materially.

    Regards,

    gdt Geoff.

  • acsot
    acsot
    ((Mario)) - thanks so much for posting. You deserve to get away, reunite with family and let them help you heal a tiny bit. Their warmth and support are just what you need. I'm so glad you will have a professional to talk to and help you through the other side of this nightmarish situation. My thoughts are with you.
  • Billygoat
    Billygoat

    ((((((Mario)))))))

    I'm so excited to hear about the potential for your contract job. That's wonderful news! And don't worry about Marina. She will come around. As she gets older, she'll be comparing your loving behavior with that of her controlling grandparents. Guess who's going to win out?! Be patient my friend. Your daughter is a smart girl...she just needs time to heal.

    You're in my prayers.

    Love,

    Andi

  • G Money
    G Money

    ciao bello!

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