My wife abandoned our family to join a no-relationships-allowed cult with her friends, and years later she came back expecting to be welcomed with open arms.
Im a 29-year-old male, got married 6 years ago but I’ve been divorced for 3 years now. I have two daughters with my ex-wife Amanda, 30, who are now aged four and five. I have full custody of them since Amanda didn’t want to be bogged down by family responsibilities.
We were happily married for 3 years, had two beautiful kids, and were even planning on buying a house so we could move out of the apartment we lived in—when she suddenly hit me with: “I want to be single and explore the world right now.”
We had been together since high school, so we were all we knew. I was her first everything, and she was mine. So I always assumed we were in it together forever. She seemed fine with not having been with other people, but after 3 years of marriage she told me she wasn’t happy and wanted both of us to be free of the burden of our marriage and family, so we could live life to the fullest.
It was all weird freethinker talk, like my mom would refer to it, and I didn’t understand any of it because I thought she loved me. She insisted she did love me, but also said she loved herself and wanted to give herself a fair chance to explore the world.
I even suggested opening our marriage temporarily, no matter how much it hurt me, just to make sure she stayed married to me and didn’t actually leave. But she wasn’t into that idea and was hellbent on getting divorced so we could both do this the right way.
I was heartbroken after that conversation because it came out of nowhere. When I started crying in front of her, she told me that everything would be fine and to have faith in our love, because if we were meant to be she’d find her way back.
It was ridiculous and unfair, but that’s how our marriage ended. One day she decided to pack her bags and leave so she could explore the world and be on her own for a while—leaving me and our two kids behind without giving a damn about what would happen to us.
I even asked what she thought would happen to the kids and she suggested I leave them with someone I trust and I should go explore the world too. Travel, meet new people, and live a generally adventurous life so I could grow.
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