Mr G, a woman now 45 years of age, with two children and two grandchildren and everybody born in Bridgetown and who is a happily divorced person and enjoy being divorced.  She celebrates her divorce every year as so happy she really is. She had a miserable marriage but a happy ending.
She has a wonderful life now with someone really special and who treats her with dignity and respect.  He is honest, trustworthy and a really respectful person that she can relate to whenever she needs help or anything and he makes a really happy.  As a matter of fact, she can write a book about her past whereby she has dates, times and even describing the events that happened that day as her children was still small at that time and how traumatized they were. She only said that she can thank God for letting her realised that she can do something about it and she made the decision that never let her turn back to the past.  She just realised that she nobody's punching bag and that I was raised by my parents and not by you.
She told me a small verdict of her life. She was in court this day of her divorce and the magistrate called them to the stand and like she had a lawyer and the lawyer spoke on behalf of her and explained her ordeal with this man of how he abused her and the children. That day she explained they went to court three times where he refused to divorce her.  The magistrate called her to the stand and he asked her if she doesn't want to give him another chance and she said no and when he asked him again he still refused and the magistrate told him to leave the courtroom and said to her, I give you a free divorce, I sign on behalf of him and she jump and scream in court and hug her lawyer and nobody in court could believe that she was the happiest person to be divorce.  She after that went to her lawyers office and the lawyer let her phone each and everybody that she wanted to phone, but the best part of that was that nobody new that she was getting a divorce that day and everybody was surprised and asked her why she told nobody, but they all supported her as they new what he was doing and what type of person her was.  They just said that now you are free from the abuse and the smoking of dagga over your heads.  You no all that she said was that she didn't wanted to burden people with her problems and that she wanted to do it on her own and not wanted fingers to be pointed to everybody that was involved and she was glad for not involving people as she can face the problem on her own.  She is also somebody that likes to do things on her own and is very independent and she still is. But you no even if you have an interdict like she had made him change as he still abused them and was locked up and released but that didn't change him, but now that she is divorce from him he came to beg her to take him back and she said darling it is too late for tears you had your chance. But to end of so long is that she is not a drinker but that day she went into the canteen and bought her a bottle of wine and celebrated and still doing it if it is her divorce anniversary.  She is still really happy for being a single parent and urge everybody that you don't need to be in an abused relationship, as you can make a difference.    

     

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Rene Parker said…
This is truly inspiring and well written. Thank you for capturing the essence of it all.

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