True love is real, anyone looking don't lose hope you will find your soul mate. I did

I was Married to my 3 kids father for far to long now that I look back, I should of ended it before it started, but what can one do, love is blind, literally. He was and continues to be the lord of all looser. My first born and only daughter once said to me during a heated discussion we had during her early rebellious teen years. "You picked him we didn't" " I will not make the mistakes you made in your life". I truly hope and pray from the bottom of my heart that she does not in fact commit the same mistakes as I did. Believe you me I committed more then my share by far. It took so many years to be able to break away from him, I loved him with all my heart. I could not bare to be away from him. I drove cross country so many times to get away from him, and then to go back to him, with our kids by my side. Pathetic what love will make you do, and endure. I put up with both physical and mental abuse, he was and is to this day a drug addict and an alcoholic. He cheated, lied, you name it he did it and I stayed. I thought I could change him. I believed that the love I felt for him would concur all. Boy was I wrong.
I finally did break the co-dependence of him, and for years was a miserable bitch who was out to punish every man who was interested in me for his mistakes. A good friend and co-worker once commented to me while at a lunch break, enjoying a cigarette " you are a man eater, and a man hater, one day you are going to meet a man who is going to give it to you real good and your going to fall in love. And I did, and he did do me real good. The best I've had in fact. He is and will always be my soul mate.. I love you baby... thank you for making me believe in love once again...  My only regret is not having found you sooner..