Christians, what is it like to have a personal relationship with Jesus?

[Spirian]

A pastor told my mother to divorce my father because he wasn't a Christian. She divorced my dad - life was fucked after that.

What do you mean by fucked? Did it really get that bad?

My mother is a Christian and my dad is an atheist. It's always been so. She started going to a new church when I was 14 years old, and the pastor there began immediately showing my mother all of the scriptures about why she shouldn't be married to a non-believer. After about a year of this she left my dad. I was torn between two homes and a horribly heartbroken father and a brainwashed mother - it continues to this day. That's what I mean by "fucked".

Our home was sober, well kept, and non-violent. My dad never berated my mother for her faith. There was no reason for our family to be dismantled because some old-fashioned myth says so.