James
Walsh
The first twenty-three years of my life were rather
unremarkable. I was born to middle-class parents in a rather innocuous
and drab suburb of London; my father was a solicitor, while my
mother was a homemaker. I was the first of three children; I was
followed by twin sisters, four years younger than me. I went to
an average middle school but my stellar marks propelled me into
one of the nation’s best public schools for my schooling,
after which I attended the top engineering college in the country.
I excelled at my chosen subject, artificial intelligence, and
had the privilege of working with Robert Smythe, the pre-eminent
world expert on neural networks and humanistic robotic models.
After obtaining my PhD under his tutelage, I obtained funding
and set up my own research laboratory in a warehouse near my suburban
apartment. I was single at the time, but that was soon to change.
The year 1999 was rather eventful for both my
professional and personal life. In the laboratory, I perfected
a new approach to design and build a nano-scale robot whose applications
in the fields of engineering and medicine were limitless. The
‘Nanobot’, as I called my invention, attracted a great
deal of publicity and I was featured in several newspapers and
magazines as a prodigious inventor. Soon, a large corporation
whose identity I am not at liberty to disclose approached me and
licensed my technology for an extremely large sum of money; I
was, overnight, a multimillionaire. My personal life also featured
an interesting development; I began dating Andrea, my research
assistant, and quickly fell hopelessly in love with her. We were
married soon after.
The trouble began when Andrea began spending an
increasing amount of time away from the home for seemingly trivial
errands. I followed her one day and was shocked to see her embracing
a young man in the parking lot of our country club; it turned
out that she had been having an affair with her tennis instructor
for several months. I was livid, and demanded an immediate Divorce.
An investigation revealed that this was the fourth or fifth affair
she had had; she had managed to conceal several others from my
admittedly distracted and work-focused purview.
Andrea used every trick in the book in a pathetic
attempt to try and win me back; she exhibited every emotion in
the sun to try and wheedle forgiveness out of me. However, I felt
cheated and humiliated and demanded that she leave my home. I
called my father and asked him to recommend a good solicitor,
and filed for divorce as soon as the courts opened after the weekend.
I also blocked Andrea’s access to our joint account and
changed the locks to my house; I literally, had her thrown onto
the street.
My solicitor cleverly proved that the large amount
I received from Corporation _____ had been finalised before my
marriage; it was, therefore, not a common asset. While Andrea
and her solicitor tried desperately to make several false insinuations
to the court in an effort to fatten her alimony payment, the court
was unswayed, and awarded her a modest alimony payment and a share
in a few joint assets, such as her car.
Even though the divorce did not take much of a
financial toll on me, it left me an emotional wreck. It was several
years before I could think of going out and trying to meet someone
new, and thoughts of Andrea haunted me constantly. I sank into
a depression and became dependent on alcohol and prescription
medication; I was desperate to block out the emotional pain. At
one point, I even sank to the level of considering the possibility
of having her back; however, better judgement prevailed, and I
sought counselling for my problems and was soon back on my feet.
I devoted my energies to my laboratory and am happy to report
that I am in another rewarding, fulfilling and, thankfully, entirely
monogamous relationship.
It has now been over three years since my tumultuous
divorce and I can finally state that I got over the trauma that
the process caused me. My solicitors, counsellors and family were
great supports, and I can only advise anyone going through a divorce
to avail of any similar types of support systems available; the
process can be extremely difficult otherwise!
Article Directory: http://www.articlecube.com James Walsh is
a freelance writer and copy editor. For more information on getting
a Divorce see www.quickie-divorce.com
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