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Recent content by joe78

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    what will you do as a parent?

    sorry.. typing error. for evening mist, she is my cousin....
  2. J

    what will you do as a parent?

    Thanks a lot ! I appreciate your concern and help. I will tell my uncle what you have said here. Please keep her in your prayer. For Evening Mist, she is not cousin. But, yes, somewhat i feel pained and sad to see their family going through this. We were very closed when we were little...
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    what will you do as a parent?

    what is shock therapy? can you tell me more about it ?
  4. J

    what will you do as a parent?

    yes, she is 20. but her maturity is not 20.
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    what will you do as a parent?

    If she is Australia, i don't think she cares about loosing the financial help from the parents. She wants the freedom and being able to get together with her boy friend.
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    what will you do as a parent?

    I think that's a great idea. I thought about that before. Finding the middle ground has to be mutual agreement. she treated her parents like enemy. If they let her go back to Australia, don't you think she will set up her own plan B ? Australia is pretty far from Indonesia. If she's gone, how...
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    what will you do as a parent?

    If her parents let her make choices. Do what she wants, who will guide her? Her own i guess. at some points, she is still very dependent. Money is one the issue. She keeps asking money for all kind of stuffs. If they withdrawn her financial, but still let her stay at home and let her do what she...
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    what will you do as a parent?

    If she needs to earn her own way to Australia, that will take a lot of courage and time. And as a foreign student, she can't work anywhere she wants in Australia. I will keep praying for her and support her. Do hope that she can do what she has been dreaming to do, musician. She started...
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    what will you do as a parent?

    Thanks for your responses! I think for some parents, it's so hard to let the children go. As Karla said, they need to make their own mistakes, and decision. If you are the parent, will you send her back to Australia where she has been wanting? or she needs to earn her own money to go?
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    what will you do as a parent?

    I think her mom does not want to let her go and survive on her own. Maybe she worry about her doing something stupid, such as hanging with wrong people. Her parents are very protective. I don't think asking her parents to let her go is a good solution. Any other suggestions?
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    what will you do as a parent?

    Yes, she is 20.
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    what will you do as a parent?

    I'm not a parent. But I would like to know how christian parents handle about this situation. This happens in my uncle's family back home in Indonesia. My uncle's family is protestant - christian. He and his wife have 3 children. Janet is the oldest (20 years old). At 16, she went for school...