When I was at school I experienced people making fun of me for my appearance and it definitely affected my confidence as I grew up. I used to look in the mirror all the time and hate how I looked. I would look at surgery online to see what I could do to fix myself and even contacted one of them...
Hi, I married not even three months ago after we had been together only 8 months. He was not a total stranger to me when we got together as he was three years older than me in our tiny high school growing up, but I had never talked to him then and moved away when I was 15 and it wasn't until I...
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I was watching a video and the Youtuber said that the worse suffering for those in hell is the fact that they could have achieved heaven eternally. I think he quoted Thomas Aquinas so that's why I am asking if there is something like that in Orthodoxy?
Also, in...
...yes! That's right! I'm just mulling over one of Grace VanderWaal's songs and thinking, "Self, don't you feel like this sometimes? Maybe, a lot of the time? I wonder if other folks feel like I do? Short of empathy; short of insight; short on words?"
Do you ever feel like you wish you...
Hello everyone,
I honestly didn't know where to put this, so I decided to release this here.
Years ago, I was engaged to be married to an abusive man. We were both young and I made a mistake of losing my virginity to him. We later moved in together, the emotional, mental, verbal abuse...
Hello everyone,
This post may very well be in the wrong place and if it is, I apologise. I've come here for help as I am very lost and feel quite defeated. I will try to keep this as short as possible and thank you for reading.
I have been married to a wonderful, kind, and beautiful woman for...
Yesterday I was unhappy because my old Buick Skylark blew a muffler. Today I saw this (brace yourself):
https://tinyurl.com/lpe4uu3
Why?
Lord, teach us to pray.
I am only a month into married life and I am filled with regret. We got married on our 2 year anniversary after a year long engagement. Our relationship was filled with arguments prior to marriage but when I confided in those I trust they told me it was just me who thought it was wrong. I suffer...
hey everyone. I've been married for 2 years and nothing has been working out for us very well. He's been deployed and away for training for about 17 months out of those two years. In the beginning (before my salvation in Christ) when we were dating life was perfect. We never fought, we actually...