I got two hours of sleep today, finally, after another sleepless night last night. I'm tired now, so I hope tonight will be the night I break the streak. The bad thing is, my sleep this afternoon was nothing but nightmares. It's pretty much the same nightmares that I have had on and off for 14 years now. It's important here to know that the divorce laws in WV are archaic and biased. They were developed to protect barefoot housewives from abusive men. When I got divorced, my ex-wife's friends, family, even her mother - everyone went to court on my part and told the truth - that she did nothing but sleep, go to work, have affairs, and spent her waking hours screaming at the rest of us, and that I had cared for my daughters exclusively since their birth. Still, in WV, unless the mom is a drug addict AND in prison, she gets the kids and therefore almost everything else.
The injustice of it all has tore at me for years now, and because she can afford good lawyers she has been able to make my life hell all this time in an attempt to prove to everyone that I am worthless. I know it sounds incredible, and unless you are a divorced man in WV you may not believe it. Even as recent as last year, a very good attorney told me, "You're the male, so bend over"
Anyway, I have the nightmares sometimes of her screaming at me, or humiliating me, lying and then laughing to me about it and all that.
