Anything that Norma or the rest of them think they know about my marital history has only come from Jerry's deluded version of it. This is my version of what happened.
I was 22 and married my then best friend, Jerry. In the beginning, we did everything together, went everywhere together, supported each other, survived 7 miscarriages together. The good, the bad and the ugly, we did it together. In 1998, my prayers were answered with the birth of a beautiful and healthy baby girl.
6 months later. My world came crashing down with one phone call from my husband. He was in the U.S Navy and he was calling from the Naval Brig. He had been arrested for arson, destruction of government property and bomb threats to the aircraft control tower. He committed these crimes on NAS Norfolk. He told me that he was guilty, he had turned himself in, and he was facing 115 years in Federal prison.) He went to trial and was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was sent to Butner Federal Prison for almost 2 years until they decided that he was no longer a threat to society. One condition of his release was that I had to oversee his medications and make sure that he did everything he was supposed to during the 2 years he was on Federal probation. (As soon as he was off probation, he stopped taking his medication.) The US Navy decided that he would receive his full retirement. (Pre-9/11)
If I had to do it all over again, I would have NEVER let him return home. I tried to stay with him for over 10 more years for the sake of my daughter. It didn't matter, he wasn't the same man that I had married and I felt trapped, living with a stranger. He blames me for destroying our family and lies to everyone saying that he is the poor victim of a horrible wife who just used him during our whole marriage. Everything, in his mind, is always someone else fault. Never his. For many years, he had me fooled, for many months he had the U.S. Navy fooled by hiding his crimes, to this day he has his friends and family fooled by the lies he tells.
I just wanted to stop the GFM. It was wrong to prey on people's compassion for monetary gain. If I wanted more money wouldn't I keep quiet knowing they are getting a lump sum of money?
The only monetary gain I am seeking now from him is the court-ordered settlement we had already agreed upon. Why should unsuspecting strangers pay for my divorce?
But once again Norma had to racket it to level 1000.
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This is why I got a DVO against Jerry when he threatened my life.