WoW!  Thanks so much. I’m always told “that ship has sailed”, “it was soo long ago”, “move on”.  I feel that I do not know what I did or continue to have a spouse hate me so much, to want me punished, to look down on me. I would not be the person I am today. I was brought up in a community to do service; married son of clergy who believed a wife to be subservient and to obey. Judges would say, “what did You do for him to...  he is still alive and my children have family dinners with the two of us present. We do not speak. He stares. My children are less nervous when we are both present. I live in section 8 hud housing while he lives in a big house on lake hopatcong. He was convicted of income tax evasion for which I found out from a newspaper article. He was allowed to keep all the money because the courts said that if they made consideration for me they would have to open too many cases. There is so much more. Today I continue to do volunteer work and advocate for others. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to express myself. 

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