9/22 MOTW - Krystina Sanchez
I know that it can be hard to share your life’s story with others and I hope that by sharing mine with you all that it might help someone to know that they are not alone.
When I was 19 I got married and moved to Texas with my now ex husband. He turned out to be a completely different person than he pretended to be before I moved out there with him. It started with small things being done wrong in his opinion or food not being made the way he liked and escalated from there. I was cut off from my family and my friends. He would get mad and break things if he found out that I was talking to them on the phone when he wasn’t around. I had to walk on eggshells while I felt like a bull in a china shop. Nothing was good enough. Then it was throwing things around the house to throwing them at me.
I prayed every day and every night for the strength to do what was right. I feared leaving him for many reasons. Then one day it was like a switch was flipped and I realized I was not going to survive if I stayed. I talked to the pastor of my church there who told me that what I was going through was grounds for divorce that God would not cast me aside for. I know I am not a perfect person and I have sinned in my life. But I did not deserve to be in that position. And neither do you.
I managed to move back to my home state and a couple of years later I met my soulmate. And as it would happen, he knew my ex husband from school when they were younger and told me he wished he had met me then to save me from the man he knew. So he understood me and what I went through and never questioned me. He has been my best friend, my rock, and my salvation. He believes in God and is religious as well so to him this was how it was supposed to be.
We were not ready for each other and had to go through the torments we did so we would be stronger together. God put us together when the time was right.
It has been hard to unlearn the habits of flinching or apologizing for things I have no control over, but he helps me with it every single day. Even when we are down on our luck and don’t know how we will make it to the next month we have faith that all will be okay. That we will find a way.
God gave me a partner who I can walk beside on this journey of life and granted me two amazing children who have taken me into their lives and call me their bonus mom. He also gave me a son of my own to solidify the bonds between us. The three of them are so close with each other that it melts my heart to see it.
I am thankful every day for this life God gave me and understand that he paved the way to my happiness today.
“With God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
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