The Cycle of Control: the power struggle
Do you feel that since the children have been gone that your life has been changed upside down? You feel like someone else is holding the strings to your existence? Well many women go through that struggle where they feel that they can't get a handle on what's going on. On January 21st my life changed in the worst way possible. My babies that I had loved for so long were being taken. Through no fault of their own, they were now wards of the state. A situation I promised myself I would never allow my children to have to bear witness to. Along with the changes that was going on with the kids, came my marriage on the rocks. I went from being a newly wed, to a foster mom for two years and then a potential divorcee and my world as I knew it was no more. The blame game started and the constant arguments and then the feeling of betrayal. I truly felt like someone else was holding the strings to my life and was pulling whenever they felt like it, I had no contro