halfagirl – I share your feelings. The notion that children are definitely better off with their parents married is false. Raising children in a home full of acrimony and tension is far more emotionally destructive than having them brought up in peace by a single parent. In a home full of hostility, every day can bring new pain, guilt, and scarring. SOMETIMES it is better to yank off the band-aid and make a clean split even if it will entail a great deal of pain and difficulty. I imagine that this is not easy to hear for someone who experienced the pain of their parents’ divorce but there are two sides to every coin.
My prayer would sound like this:
Dear Father in heaven
Bring me to a place where there is no screaming
Where I will be a pawn no longer
A place both stable and serene
Free of insult and guilt
All who see me do not understand
Everything seems to be just fine
They know not of the hate
That surrounds me on all sides
Only You see the truth
Of what really goes on
Give her the strength to take us and leave
To build anew in peace