Sleeping with the enemy

 This  story caught my eye and what a sad story it is. This lady writes a pro choice blog but her story this time is personal. She reveals that she is going through a divorce as her husband has found another.....but to add insult to injury to make himself look less guilty, he divulges secrets about her that falls under the category of "it is non of their business "to family and friends. Isn't that what happens in the divorce process, in an effort to make yourself look less guilty you throw out all the dirt you can manufacture on the other party to justify your actions.  And what is equally sad is that the person you trusted with your secrets now has become the enemy who holds "classified information" about you.

But I digress......in this case her departing husband outed her on the fact that as a teenager she had an abortion which was forced on her by an hysterical mother. Every mother of a teen girl can relate. But even though she now devotes her life to writing a pro choice blog,  her post tells of the long term psychological consequences of this action even though it was forced upon her.

"To this day, I have PTSD and severe depression. When I turned eighteen, I moved away from her, and never spoke to her again. After an eleven-year estrangement, she died, while I was six months pregnant with my third child."

"Coercion and Forced abortions happen everyday." 

Today I will pray for Bella for healing. Healing from the betrayal and the loss. As she faces betrayal of her husband and the loss of a marriage, it reminds her of the loss of so many years ago and the betrayal at the hands of her mother who was supposed  to protect her in her hour of need. May she come to forgive her mother and her estranged husband so she can go on with her life free of bitterness.