Please pray everyone

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Everyone who wants our marriage to survive this storm, please keep praying. Today it is one day until the first court date for the divorce and four days until Jackie and I will have been married for five years. Please pray that we'll be able to quickly forgive each other and not to hold grudges, that I won't bring this up as "the time you abandoned me" or any such sad nonsense that would only serve to make things worse between us. Pray that God will restore us together and repair our marriage and all the relationships that have been damaged by words, that He'll have us say the things that need to be said between us and everyone else. I love my lady Jacklyn Suzanne Fournier and as only Eve and Adam were meant for each other so I believe only Jackie and I are meant for each other. I know it is a short time for everything to be fixed now, but God made the universe in six days and nothing is impossible for Him. Please keep praying everyone, and hopefully Jackie and I will be back together soon and the divorce will stop and our marriage will never end, hopefully we'll even get to enjoy our fifth anniversary together rather than separately. Please keep praying everyone.

Done. Hugs.

I wish you the best. My Grandfather didn't take communion after divorce, and carried guilt his entire life, even after he remarried.

I hope you get a some sort of resolution, however you have to accept whatever like has to throw at you, sometimes that means moving on.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

You're in my thoughts. That's all I'm comfortable saying.

Praying.

It's an unfortunate lesson in how quickly things can get screwed up in marriage. We all are guilty, despite our best efforts, of airing some relational negativity. I've managed to resist a LOT of temptation in that area, and if I have a complaint at all it's that my wife on occasion succumbed to peer pressure and embarrassed me. I honestly don't think she intended to…it was just "girls' night out" girl-talk. I think we were fortunate to have the kind of relationship in which I was able to speak my mind (in private) and we were able to work out exactly what those boundaries should be, the difference between "I need to talk" and "husbands are scum." I'm not fooling myself here, either…EVERYONE goes through this, and having been married almost 10 years now, we're not immune to it.

All I can offer is this: If you want to reconcile in a marriage battle, DO NOT AGREE to a no-fault. Just don't. Either bury her in paperwork every step of the way, or soldier on until there is no way a court can deny her a divorce in your jurisdiction. It may not seem like it, but you DO have options. Never allow anyone to bully you into signing legal documents. The only way I'd take an out is if I were cheating, abusing her or the kids, etc. NFD's make ugly stuff like that go away quietly. Well, I don't beat my wife, cheat, or abuse my kids. I'd make every effort to reconcile. I'd fight to the bitter end should anyone get the bright idea to "lawyer up."

Most importantly, if I ultimately had no choice or say in the matter, all I can do is put it in God's hands. And I see you've already done that. Best wishes to you both.

Praying for your marriage. I hope that everything works out

I'm not religious but I do hope things work out.