My Marriage Story

by Daily Dew Testimonies | May 28, 2025 | Testimonies

Years ago, while I was in graduate school, I met the man that I wanted to marry.  He was somebody who was everything that I could ever imagine I wanted.   We had the same cultural background; he was a strong Christian (supposedly) and came from a strong Christian family.  I ended up getting into a relationship with him for about 7 years, but it was a horrible, terrible, bad relationship. I would say that we brought out the worst in each other but from the way he talked about past relationships I could tell that he’d always been the type of person he was with me even when he was in relationships with other people.  About 7 years into the relationship he got married to somebody else behind my back. It took a few months for me to find out what happened and when I did I was completely devastated.  I was hurt, I was disappointed, and I felt hopeless because I was already at an age where people were starting to get concerned as to why I wasn’t yet married. I entered into a severe depression for a few years that was only exacerbated by family members, friends and coworkers constantly commenting on me not being married, making jokes that were so hurtful about me being single and

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