Hope everyone is doing well. I haven't gone forum digging yet to see what all I've missed but hopefully I'll get around to it.

Let's see, last I remember posting I was going through an ugly divorce and didn't haven't visitation with my kids since my now-ex's rich family hired two high speed attorneys. She wanted 100% custody, half my police retirement, a restraining order (which would have cost me my job), me to assume all of her credit card debt, and an astronomical sum for alimony even though she made $20K more per year than me.

Well.... Custody is 50/50 so I get my kids a week at a time, she gets ZERO percent of my retirement, no restraining order, only a portion of the debt and no alimony. And I was represented pro bono by a local attorney that really likes to help out police officers in sticky situations. So after a two and a half year battle, it all ended well for me and life is great. I celebrated the occasion by flaming my last Liberty 07... Fitting, because I was now "free" so to speak and because it was 5 years old...just like the marriage that was now burned as well! 🇨🇮

I'm still in law enforcement, but with a larger agency with more opportunities for me. Better gear, better pay, better agency....better all around.

I'm also engaged (yeah yeah, I decided to give it another shot... But for those of you that are divorced, you know it's much easier the second time around because you know what you don't want!) to a smoking hot woman who currently is a vet tech but is in school for nursing, and who loves a great whiskey as much as I do.

So all in all, life is good. Still have a slight financial hill to climb, as my once great credit was marred during the divorce...but I can't really complain. I get to be with my kids, I have a great woman now, and I'm healthy and happy.

Here's hoping the rest of you guys are doing well also. 05Busa, if you're still here, stay safe bro! MACS and all the other veterans, I hope you have a great Memorial Day weekend and thanks for your service!

And Steve, if you're still here, I'm off to smoke a Gurkha in your honor!

IF you dive into marriage again remember this: one divorce is bad luck; two divorces is a pattern, and three divorces is evidence... it's you.

Hope everything works out for you, man.

And yeah, if this one doesn't work, I'm done haha. I admit I had some fault with the failed marriage. But it takes two to make it work (and two to ruin it) and the one I'm with now is what I've always wanted. She's had her share of issues also, so we both understand what it takes to make it work. I'm confident that this will be a life long partnership!

Wiser words were never spoken.

Good to see you back, fella! Some were wondering if a tree had fallen in your yard and squashed you LOL! Nothing warms my heart like seeing the old "Money is power" adage fail! Good on ya!

CBid whack-a-mole... if you pop your head up... WHAM!

Those charges could've made your life unbearable.

You owe that pro bono attorney bigtime.

Personally, I would not get remarried so soon, but that's up to you.

Get a pre-nup on this new one if you have any major assets left or rich relatives to inheirit from in the near future.

Glad to here almost everything is better.

What is the age difference w/ the new fiancee?

Is that humidor still working for you?

I thought you had gone into deep cover and infiltrated a fake cuban cigar smuggling ring.

DC - yes! I still have it! It's survived two moves and still works like a champ.

Cruz- thanks for your service, sorry your ex was a whore though. But glad the second marriage is treating you better, I look forward to the same!

Jade- if I had known you were still here, I would have stayed away bwahaha.

Duwan- I tried to go deep under cover to investigate that ring, but TG was down there too and the **** hit me with a mean Dutch oven. Don't go under cover with TG. Speaking of, is he still around?

Busa- wow...just wow.

Now, now TBro. You're just saying that because the sexual tension between us is still so strong.