I didn't ask for all this flexibility...but I'm making the best of it.
It dawned on me earlier today. I’ve been married for more than half of my life. Now this might not seem like a great accomplishment for those of you that are over 50 and have had one marriage to your name (which is the way God designed it to be…but I digress). I have two 15 year marriages and I just turned 57. So more than half my life was spent with the responsibility of being a husband/father. One of the ways I’ve tried to live my life was putting other people’s needs ahead of my own for most of the time. That’s been the ideal anyway. So when you’re in a God centered marriage, God comes first, wife second, children 3rd, occupation 4th, then the rest you can fill in according to your convictions. So more than half my life I’ve tried to put my wife’s/family needs ahead of my own. So much so in fact that I didn’t have a life/identity outside of being a family man. That is taking it’s toll on my identity now that I’m separ...