My dark valley

A little info about me. I'm a former Marine and I'm now working for the government.
I was married for 23 years, I say was because in May of this year my soon to be Ex. (she who must not be named) took my children and left the state while I was out of town.
Now I've worked hard to provided for my family and my kids are not little. The oldest is 19 and the youngest is 15. I am not a violent person but I am not afraid to stand up for whats right or face anyone down who has evil on their mind. As for getting loud, hey we are married, it happen. But it is also a two way street, I wasn't the only one here.
Anyway when I left for Maryland for training for 3 weeks, everything seamed OK, you know kisses kisses huggy huggy I'll call when I get there and all.
And we talked for the first week too, then nothing. I even had friends from church check on the house to see if everything was OK. And it was but no one was home.
Call the police for their help ( don't even get me started on them, Thats for another topic) and they called back saying that they had info for me on my wife and to come down to the station.
Thats when I was hit with an Order of Protection. She had said that I was going to shoot her and was in fear of her life. Well all I can say is BS. But in the eyes of the cops I'm now an evil male.
Went to court and got the OofP thrown out, but now the police wont help me find my children. In fact no one will.
The only way to get the system to do anything was for me to file on her, so I did.
And now I'm in a fight with her over everything including getting her to move back to the state with my children.
The last time I talked with my kids was in July.
My last court date was in July and the next is in Dec. at this rate I will have missed everyones birthdays.
And it looks like I will miss Christmas too.
The thing that gets me the most is, if I had done what she did, I would be in jail now, not walking around free as a bird.
Anyway Thats where I'm at now. I could use some prayer, and other things but that will need to take time for us to grow to know each other first.
Forgive me if I say anything that may be hurtful later, I don't mean to be.

You all sound like a great bunch of people that try to look out for each other and that is a good thing. Please give me some time to heal and I will try to be as helpful as I can too.

FDD, that's a hard story....hate to hear it.

Just know prayers will be said on both sides of the aisle for a peaceful conculusion to your situation, for sake of everyone involved.

Welcome to the forum.