How do people end up bitter?

I don't think it's a dumb post at all. I was a young parent as well, I had three children at the age of 21. I'm not going to tell you I was single for long, but I settled. I met a man at 25 and thought he was great, great with the kids, helping me and I thought I had been sent a gift from heaven. But, you know that o'l saying "what's too good to be true, usually is" well, that was the case. However, I stayed with this man for 18 years, he put me and my kids through hell, hit me, hit them, was a bipolor *** hole, nice sometimes, an *** hole sometimes. So, the moral to this story is, sometimes the gr isn't greener on the other side. Sure you are alone, well not totally you have children, but you want a man in your life. You need to change your thought process around. If you keep thinking it's hard to find someone, that you are going to end up old and alone, you will. Why? Because you are already thinking that you are, brining the thought, into a thing. I hope you understood that statement "thoughts become things." So, imagine yourself with a nice man, being good to your children and becoming a family, invision this every day and know that he is coming your way, every day, cut out a picture what you might want him to look like, cut out a picture of the house you want to live in, the car you want to drive and put it on a cork board, and really know that this man and life is coming your way soon and... it will. Trust this and it will happen. You have a ton of life ahead of you, probably the happiest times of your life, so look forward to them and get these negative thoughts out of your head. You have children and you need to be this positive ray of sunshine in their life.