I am a twenty-nine year old woman who has been married for ten years. My husband and I have four children together. We have been separated for 11months now. For the majority of our marriage my husband has been verbally and physically abusive.But for the last few years he changed and the physical abuse stopped, but the verbal continued. The verbal abuse was starting to break my spirit down. So I decided to leave, Initially, what lead up to me leaving was that we got into a argument about our finances and in which he told me to leave the house. Since, I left my husband I have taken the kids out and we hve been intimate.After, six months of living in separate homes. One day I went to the house and he had changed the locks on the doors at the house that we had been living together before the separation.A couple of weeks later he filed for divorce. One thing I left out was that after I left my husband my kids and I went to ive with my parents. My husband continued to ask me to come back. He talked with my father telling him to make me come back home. He wrote me letters telling me he was sorry and missed me.He even broke down getting very emotional. Apart, of me wanted to go back but I did'nt I stood firm on I wanted us to attend marriage counseling. He refused to go leaving me to belive that things would never change. So now we are about to go to court for a temporary hearing and I am not sure If I am making the right decision by not telling my husband for the second time that I don't want a divorce, I still love him, and I want my family back. I truly feel that we need counseling before or If we come back together as a family.I had gotten comfort fo being released form my marriage from a scripture in Corinthians.It talks about If the unbeliving spouse leaves (divorces) that the husband/wife can is released from the marriage and can go in peace.Has God given me my answer in this scripture? Has God given me my answer in this scripture?

God gives many answers to many problems in scripture. All I can suggest is to continue to pray and seek God's direction and will in this matter and have faith in the battles being won that you can not see.