Michelle Mathews:  

I have been busy like most folks I suppose. I got married while I was still a Senior in High School. I had my 1st daughter before I graduated, but I did graduate thank goodness. I went to work not long afterwards. While still with that same job I had my only son. I quit work to stay home with him which was fun. After 10 abusive years of marriage, my husband and I divorced when my son was about 4 years old. Not much later I met a man I had once worked with. We got together and were common law married. We had two daughters, 18 months apart. After being at a new job a month and a half, I became a widow when a freak accident took his life. He was buried on his 26th birthday and I had a 2 1/2 and a 9 month old to raise alone. I started dating later on and after a real loser of a boyfriend, I met the man of my dreams. Too bad I wasn't the woman of his. We were together 7 years, married 5 of those. Those were some of the happiest years of my life with the exception of having and raising my children. I was lucky enough to not have to work when I married him and got to be a stay at home Mom with my two youngest daughters. A tragic event in my husband's life seemed to change him though and after rethinking his life and what he wanted from it, being my husband wasn't on his list of priorities, so he left me in 2000 and we divorced in '03. I met a guy about a year later and after dating awhile, he moved in and we've been an on again of again couple, but mostly just housemates. It's less complicated and means less heartache that way. In the middle of this relationship though I decided I needed a career change. I went...Expand for more