Walking Thru Divorce :: Lara Williams [Ep 324]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The daily grind of marriage, parenting, and life wears on us all, but when your relationship with your spouse is no longer a healthy one, how do you choose to walk away? My guest and long-time friend Lara Williams brings us into her story of working through marriage infidelity with her husband and her long, painful journey to divorce.
“And it was a process, but I think I finally got to that place where I could accept that divorce was happening in my life, but that's just it. It's happening. It doesn't mean that's who I am. And it doesn't just because God hates it. It doesn't mean he hates me. He loves me and I went through a process of washing those lies with the truth of what God says and he's so gracious to transform our minds.”
We talk about all the ways Lara and her husband worked to save their marriage, what it was like when saving it was no longer an option and how God met Lara in that place. Lara shares about parenting when you are walking through divorce, dating after divorce, and how the church can both help and hurt during this painful experience.
I’m so thankful for Lara’s heart and how bravely she shares her story. She has graciously given permission to publish her email address if you or someone you know would like to reach out on this topic.
Connect with Lara:
- Website: tooverflowing.com
- Instagram: @laragwilliams
- Email: laragwilliams@gmail.com
- Amazon Author Page
Links Mentioned:
- BOOK: To Walk Or Stay
- [Ep 246] Rebuilding from an Abusive Marriage :: Jeni B
- [Ep 195] Sinners Married to Sinners–How God Refines Us :: Cheryl Scruggs & Jae Carpenter
- BOOK: How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk
- Lara’s New Project: Think True Things
- Lara’s Spoken Word—“That’s Not My Name”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, oh, welcome back to the Doe Mom alone podcast. I'm your host Heather McFadden and this |
| 0:13.4 | is the place where I'm going to walk alongside you and connect you with people and resources |
| 0:19.5 | so you know that you don't mom alone. And in this episode, number 324, I get to share |
| 0:27.3 | one of my dear friends with you, Laura Williams. We would always joke and say, you know, yeah, |
| 0:35.2 | you can walk through cancer or something physical and the church surrounds you and brings |
| 0:40.4 | you cast roles, but there's no divorce cast roles. There's no separation cast roles. |
| 0:44.6 | You know, it's just different. You know, it's a different mindset, I think, in the church. |
| 0:49.1 | I think that was a sad part. My church did a great job with me. I feel like I have been |
| 0:55.5 | there for a while and they knew me and they were very supportive, but I have heard so many |
| 1:02.7 | stories and just seen, you know, the church dropped the ball with this. And I think it's |
| 1:07.5 | because we're so quick to judge and we know, yes, divorce is not like it's not God's heart |
| 1:14.7 | from marriage. I mean, I think there's just a big gap in the church to know what it's |
| 1:20.0 | like. We don't know what to do with people who are going through something that we know |
| 1:24.0 | God says he hates. So how do we reconcile? You know, so it can get kind of messy. |
| 1:29.0 | Laura is a friend that I originally met online and we have walked together through a lot |
| 1:35.6 | of life in the last 10 years. Unfortunately, she has had a lot of challenges in her marriage |
| 1:43.6 | and her marriage ending in divorce. And I invited her on the show because I know she's not |
| 1:50.4 | the only one. The one who struggled with is this marriage that we need to stay and work |
| 1:55.8 | through is this marriage that needs to end. She even wrote a book called To Walk or To |
| 2:01.0 | Stay. And at that point in her marriage, she had chosen to stay and reconcile. And so |
| 2:06.8 | my hope in sharing the story with you, whether you are in a place where your marriage is |
| 2:12.1 | at that point or not, that we could see each other and we could have compassion for |
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