Mariusa: Your children may have been cheese added later. However, my best guess is that your husband's maze intersected yours and you got off track, followign along in his maze and thinking his cheeses were yours. There was probably a different "spouse cheese" in store for you that you missed.
Wolfgang: The methods spirit guides use to get us going again in the right direction may appear to be negative experiences but they can also be positive experiences. Like maybe you're supposed to meet your future spouse on a Disney cruise but you don't have the money to go on the cruise so you accidentally win the lottery and then you take the cruise. Another way to get you on the cruise is to cause you to lose your job and you end up on that cruise as a deck swabber.
Shortening the time it takes to realize you're not headed in the right direction is up to you, your wisdom, and what you learn from life. Learn well and learn fast might be a good motto.