Life-Changing Event

What happened was I went through a quite horrific divorce and was brought to court, and I had a quite mean female judge. And when it was brought to light that I had quit my career, which I did, to be a stay at home mother, she said quite clearly to me, 'Who do you think you are?' To mother your children when the rest of us are all working? She said, well, that was a mistake, and she hit the gavel. She took away all of my alimony and most of my child support, even though it was against the law, she did it. And I came home, and I had enough money to live two weeks, and I had two small children, and I just broke down. I said, 'God, I am 40. I am smart. I have always been on my feet. How could this happen? What will I do?' I had a choice. It was a definitive choice. And I was told I had a choice. There was a fork in the road, and you cannot wait. You cannot wait a week. You cannot wait to eat. You are going to have to make this decision right now that is going to determine your whole life.