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I'm so fed up of my life the way it is. I have tried to say that what I am doing is what God wants, staying in a marriage that is int rouble, moving across the country for a 'fresh start', not having any friends that my Husband does not have already. I have let everything and now I feel like throwing everything to the wind and shouting at the world.

I feel that I have tried to do everything God wanted and I continually pray to him to help me but still I wake up very onring feeling like I want to end it. Going to work as if everything is normal when all I want to do is to walk out. being with my husband when I am not sure about our future.

Help!
 
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I have tried to say that what I am doing is what God wants

Ask God what He wants & stop trying to guess I mean "try". You may just need counseling, you might not have married the person God wanted you to marry to begin with (Those rarely work out), But I know it is not God's will for your to be miserable-so let's figure out what can be done. First Things first--make no decision you don't have to while Hungary, Angry, Lonely or Tired (HALT for short).

If you are all or any of those things let's start by fixing those.

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Kitty, this is my take on why divorce is such a big issue, why Jesus spends more time in the New Testament talking about divorce than about most other sins.

Love that is temporary is not really love. You wouldn't want that kind of love from God, right? He loves you only when it suits Him? Nobody would want that.

A major problem in our society though is that people get romance and love mixed up. Romance is not love, it is a fundamentally selfish thing. That is why so much romance ends up badly, why relationships end so explosively. They never had love to begin with. If they each loved the other, they wouldn't treat each other that way, right?

Also, real love requires some counterintuitive thinking. Romance is exclusive, real love is inclusive. Your love for one person, if it is real love, does not take away from your love of anyone else. Love is fundamentally an action, not a feeling: the feeling is to help you love, but love is an action. You know it is real love, when you are seeking the best for the beloved even when you don't feel like it.

With all the confusion between romance and love and between sex and love, it is no wonder there are so many divorces and broken relationships.

So you have to ask yourself this question: you may not like your husband sometimes, even a lot of the time, but do you love him? If you actually love him, your love is constant. If you were "in love" with him and now you aren't, well, every romance that does not mature into real love is doomed to die. That is in the nature of romance, it is fleeting.

Peace
 
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