My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?”
-Psalm 42:3, NKJV
I remember going through a phase during my separation and divorce where I had to consciously remind myself to eat.
The trauma from discovering the Other Man resulted in a twenty pound weight loss in about two weeks as I recall. It was incredibly stressful!
My encouragement to you during this time is to consciously work to take care of yourself. Make sure you continue to eat (or don’t stress eat, if that’s how you roll).
It feels stressful, because it is!
Losing a loved one is hard enough. What compounds the stress is that you are being rejected and betrayed by that loved one while you uncover layers and layers of their lies. That is a tough, tough situation.
That said, I want to encourage you. There is life on the other side of the immediate loss.
I would never have the life I have today–which is very, very good–if I had not gone through my divorce. To be fair, I did not know I would have this future while in the middle of the “suck.”
However, I chose to trust God would see me through and deal with the injustices as a loving, just, and good God.
Will you chose to trust Him? I assure you that He is a good bet!
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*A version of this post ran previously.
I remember the infidelity diet. I lost weight I didn’t have to lose. People started asking me about it because I was shrinking up to nothing, which is what I felt like at the time.
Yeah, it can be very noticeable.