THANK YOU MISTRESS!

I don't even like to say your name. I know it all too well, and I cannot get it
out of my head when I hear the kids talk about you. But to you who hurt
me, you who took away my husband, you who helped destroy an eternal
family, you who selfishly thought of only your own happiness, THANK YOU!

 You knew we were married and you knew we had kids. But I am now the
woman you saved through the strangest means possible. My husband cheated
on me with you and you willingly and knowingly participated in the lying and
deceitful 5 year affair with my husband and father of my kids. I could say
congratulations or you win, or the cliche you deserve each other, but I won't.
I will say thank you!

You would think I would hate you, because you did to me what respectable
woman would never think about doing to another, but I don't hate you. You
have done me an incredible service that I did not have the courage to do
myself. Thank you for setting me free. Thank you for saving me a future full
of pain and lies. Thank you for showing his true colors through your joint
actions.Thank you for giving me a reason to say goodbye to the biggest
blockade in my life.  Thank you for opening my future up again.Thank
you for taking the blame, for giving me a reason to leave and to give me a
reason to start over.

Thank you for reminding me that I am worth so much more than his non
stop lies and deception, that I don't have to take the emotional abuse,
gas-lighting and him making me think I was crazy through his elaborate
covers and stories any longer. Thank you for showing me that I am a
forgiving person even when the people who have wronged me and my
kids truly don't feel any remorse for their actions.

Thank you for showing me that my gut was always right, and for letting
me feel the overwhelming love and support from family and friends
who truly love me and have cared about the hurt you two have caused me!
Thank you for reminding me that I have been a Huntsman longer
than a Bawden and Huntsmans are strong!

Thank you for showing me that there are better ways to spend my time
and my tears. Thank you for sending me running to the temple because
the peace and comfort I can feel there has gotten me through this.
Thank you for reminding me what the atonement means to me in my
life as I have literally felt my heart breaking. 

Thank you for giving me a chance to have another first date, another first
kiss and another chance at a pure and eternal marriage.

Thank you for reminding me the kind of kids I want to raise so they
will know and see the difference between right and wrong in their
own lives even when they become adults!

Thank you for showing me the importance of the Gospel in my
life and how I deserve a man who will honor his priesthood because
it means something to him. 

Thank you for bringing me to my knees in prayer, for reminding me
what pain feels like, for without pain we cannot understand the
beauty of healing. Without bad, we cannot understand good. 

Without your interference, I would not have lost my breath;
but because of you, I have learned to breathe again.

THANK YOU!

Sincerely,

The girl you helped set free