I am in a hard spot

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I seem to be in a strange position here. I have a website talking about Christian marriage and now suddenly I am getting my inbox filled with people requesting advice for their marriage.

I have a great marriage myself because we follow Gods word. The problem is that I simply do not know how to help these people. It is strange because even though I know how I would handle things in my own marriage I get a blank when it comes to others asking for help.

I hear the things happening in their marriage and while they want things they can do all I can do is feel their pain. I feel so strong about marriage that when I hear of things going wrong in peoples marriage I don't know what to say because I am shocked at how bad things could be.

I guess what I am saying is I feel underqualified to help. I didn't intend for my site to be for people to email me asking for help. But they are...what do I do?
 

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I seem to be in a strange position here. I have a website talking about Christian marriage and now suddenly I am getting my inbox filled with people requesting advice for their marriage.

I have a great marriage myself because we follow Gods word. The problem is that I simply do not know how to help these people. It is strange because even though I know how I would handle things in my own marriage I get a blank when it comes to others asking for help.

I hear the things happening in their marriage and while they want things they can do all I can do is feel their pain. I feel so strong about marriage that when I hear of things going wrong in peoples marriage I don't know what to say because I am shocked at how bad things could be.

I guess what I am saying is I feel underqualified to help. I didn't intend for my site to be for people to email me asking for help. But they are...what do I do?

You could redirect them to God save my marriage

It's a site I just learned about today, I've spent a couple of hours reading and there is some great stuff there.
 
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Well recommending marriage counciling is good sometimes.

The other thing that I would say is that sometimes there isn't a lot you can do.

Like a lot of times we see someone on here who's spouse basically said that they don't love them anymore and want a divorce. And as much as all of us may want to. . . we just can't fix that.
 
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Maybe you need to more clearly state the purpose for your website right on the front page? Maybe some kind of mission statement or disclaimer "I'm not qualified as a marriage therapist." something along those lines. I don't know, I don't know what the website looks like.
 
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