I genuinely had to think about this one.

How has failure, or a parent failure, set me up for later success?

In other words, where did I fail, only to turn around and succeed in the future?

The answer is, I would not be where I’m at today, I would not be nearly as independent had I not failed at marriage. Her and I both failed at marriage, yes. Where I failed was I leaned on her for way too many things. Unknowingly I was taking the easy way out. Rather forcing myself to get it done, I left it up to her. That indeed put a lot of stress on our marriage that didn’t need to be there especially when we were already put through the ringer by our car accident taking me the man and turning myself into the child, for lack of better words. Not only could I no longer take care of her and the children, I could no longer even care for myself. That put a lot on her for sure. But had we not gone through that divorce leaving me on my own to learn how to take care of my problems as a quadriplegic on my own. It taught me how to be independent. Because I learned that independency, I took it to another level and taught myself how to independently care for my three children as well. So that failure in my marriage caused a way greater success in my life.