5 YEARS!

So I have been legally divorced for 5 years today. Not something to be proud of but has caused me to reflect on those who have helped me through being just another American statistic.

Mom and Dad

Thank you to mom and dad for trying to gently warn me before I got into the situation. For dealing with my disastrous life while remaining calm. For putting up with my psycho-simatic behaviors that have thankfully dwindled. For suggesting counseling. For calling me every night for six months. For worrying. For moving me out. For going to the lawyers with me and setting it all up. For going to court with me. For crying with me. For praying for me. And for being SO patient with me! ... and everything else!

Jamaica and Julie

For knowing that the best thing they can do for my love life now is leave it alone. For supporting me and having fun with me while I'm single. For putting up with my psycho moments. For not judging me.

The rest are relatively chronological in my mind:

Carol Doerr

I went home alone without Orion for Thanksgiving with a black eye and at church Carol asked me if it was ok if she gave me a lamp for a belated wedding gift, and as I started to cry I told her that she better wait. It makes for a good story Carol, and I love you! It sorta makes me laugh now :)

Steve Trombley

For taking me flying and helping me get my feet off the ground again! For checking in on me once in a while!

Debbie Hammons

During a phone call she said that I would go through MANY different phases. She was so right. I could tell each day that I stepped through another veil into a different phase. She also said that it takes SO much time to deal and heal with divorce and that has brought me comfort in enduring.

Patty Hansen

For putting my name on the prayer roll every week.

My Home Ward

For praying for me and asking about me.

Dick Shaw

For always wanting to see how I am doing when I go back home even though he had so much more to be concerned about.

Bishop Schilling

For showing me that Heavenly Father cares about me and loves me and wants me to be happy. For helping me repent and forgive. For keeping a close eye of concern on me and how I was.

Dana Vercimak

For letting me live with her for a month while I had no where else to go.

Maile Schilling

For letting me live with her again and for keeping an eye on me. For being so patient and a great listener.

Walmart Cashier

For getting yelled at by the woman ahead of me in the checkout line the week after I got divorced. For crying about it to me. For showing me that you never know what people are going through BE NICE!

Crazy Blind Dates

For keeping me single for the last 5 years.

Medication

For keeping me sane the last 5 years.

Sara Partridge

For being my best friend and not judging me. For being relentlessly righteous. For being a great example of where I should be.

Janell Gotfredson

Ex best friend. For not knowing anything about my life and telling everyone that I made up what Orion put me through. That was suprisingly motivating.

Timmy Schilling

For going to lunch with me everyday so I didn't sit at home and cry by myself.

Clayton Melinkovich

For taking me 4X4-ing. For letting me use his guns to shoot and distroy everything that reminded me of Orion.

Collin Whitehead

For showing me the type of person I wanted to be while going through my identity crisis. Oh and for breaking my heart while in the process.

Clark Anderson

For letting me work with Anderson Tours and go to Egypt and Isreal and New York. For life discussions that have helped me focus.

Hitler

For making me realize that I don't really have anything to be worried about.

Colleen Tucker

For all the hours of therapy and helping me understand who I am and being ok with it!

Orion Wells

For showing me what I never knew I never wanted.

My Future Husband

For putting up with all of the above and for letting me be sealed to him and not to Orion.