{"id":101000,"date":"2021-03-01T12:53:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=101000"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:54:09","slug":"happy-divorciversary-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=101000","title":{"rendered":"Happy Divorciversary to Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two years ago today, I sat in a courtroom ready to sever the bounds that held me to the man who raped, abused, and gaslit me for over twenty years. I met him at 19. With low self-esteem and messed up childhood, I was easy pickings for a broken man-child. He was charming at first; they all are. It was a couple of months into our marriage \u2013 and my pregnancy \u2013 when he put his fist through a wall because he didn\u2019t want to go to work. It deteriorated from there. <\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t a trauma story. This is my victory story. After years of fear, I met a man who listened to my story and wanted to help, even if I wanted nothing to do with him after I was free. It was his eyes I looked into while I gathered the strength to tell the judge I wanted my freedom. It was his hand I held when it was officially over.<\/p>\n

I was shellshocked at first. I didn\u2019t really believe I\u2019d be free. I genuinely thought my ex would take me out in a murder-suicide or harm the children. The sudden lift of perpetual fear left me a little giddy. When all was said and done, my gorgeous guy, my best friend said six precious words to me. \u201cCan I be your man now?\u201d (Spoiler: I said yes.)<\/p>\n

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[AdSense-A] By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong Two years ago today, I sat in a courtroom ready to sever the bounds that held me to the man who raped, abused, and gaslit me for over twenty years. I met him at 19. With low self-esteem and messed up childhood, I was easy pickings for a broken man-child. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25674],"class_list":["post-101000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-happy-divorciversary-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101000"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}