My wife left me a week before Christmas. Since then she's been cold and she hardly sees our children. It was an affair, I guess, and she's all in on it despite what anyone says to her.
In January I learned that my preteen daughter is suicidal. She sent my brother videos detailing what's going on in her life, how she feels, and how she doesn't want to live sometimes.
Last night my best friend since childhood came out as being gay to me. I never would have known. This isn't going to have an impact on our friendship, but I now have to wrestle with that being a conservative, traditional Christian.
I'm heartbroken and destroyed, and very, very confused.
I think the person posting the confusing advise is projecting his own experiences on to you. I think he's in pain from something.I'm confused because I and nobody else in our lives saw this coming, not even her own mother or best friend. She was silent about everything and went on as normal for however long she was having the affair up until she left me and abandoned the family one night before Christmas. It's a very confusing time. God definitely didn't call you to be a therapist.
You want to talk about pain? Believe me, I live steeped in it. Enough to know that, every time I think it can't get any worse, God says "oh yeah watch this". The fact is, as Christians, if we live like Christians, the world is going to pound on us. And it's going to use the very people we love to do it if it can. And aaaaallllll those verses are telling us that's the way it is and to get used to it. The only answer is to persevere. It's a war of attrition, and we occupy enemy territory. And blowing happy smoke up some poor guy's [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] ain't gonna change that.I know EXACTLY what this brother is feeling and ONLY quoting scripture, without any insight or words doesn't help. Sadly I'm still in the same situation, 10-11 years on so I have no advice, but you may wish to reconsider just quoting scripture to someone in that much pain.
My wife left me a week before Christmas. Since then she's been cold and she hardly sees our children. It was an affair, I guess, and she's all in on it despite what anyone says to her.
In January I learned that my preteen daughter is suicidal. She sent my brother videos detailing what's going on in her life, how she feels, and how she doesn't want to live sometimes.
Last night my best friend since childhood came out as being gay to me. I never would have known. This isn't going to have an impact on our friendship, but I now have to wrestle with that being a conservative, traditional Christian.
I'm heartbroken and destroyed, and very, very confused.
Lord have mercyMy wife left me a week before Christmas. Since then she's been cold and she hardly sees our children. It was an affair, I guess, and she's all in on it despite what anyone says to her.
In January I learned that my preteen daughter is suicidal. She sent my brother videos detailing what's going on in her life, how she feels, and how she doesn't want to live sometimes.
Last night my best friend since childhood came out as being gay to me. I never would have known. This isn't going to have an impact on our friendship, but I now have to wrestle with that being a conservative, traditional Christian.
I'm heartbroken and destroyed, and very, very confused.
Indeed. I'm appalled by his comments.God definitely didn't call you to be a therapist.
My wife left me a week before Christmas. Since then she's been cold and she hardly sees our children. It was an affair, I guess, and she's all in on it despite what anyone says to her.
In January I learned that my preteen daughter is suicidal. She sent my brother videos detailing what's going on in her life, how she feels, and how she doesn't want to live sometimes.
Last night my best friend since childhood came out as being gay to me. I never would have known. This isn't going to have an impact on our friendship, but I now have to wrestle with that being a conservative, traditional Christian.
I'm heartbroken and destroyed, and very, very confused.
My wife left me a week before Christmas. Since then she's been cold and she hardly sees our children. It was an affair, I guess, and she's all in on it despite what anyone says to her.
In January I learned that my preteen daughter is suicidal. She sent my brother videos detailing what's going on in her life, how she feels, and how she doesn't want to live sometimes.
Last night my best friend since childhood came out as being gay to me. I never would have known. This isn't going to have an impact on our friendship, but I now have to wrestle with that being a conservative, traditional Christian.
I'm heartbroken and destroyed, and very, very confused.
In the story of Job, everything that could go wrong went wrong. Poor Job was reduced to worse poverty. He lost his prominent place in the community, yet he did not curse God.My wife left me a week before Christmas. Since then she's been cold and she hardly sees our children. It was an affair, I guess, and she's all in on it despite what anyone says to her.
In January I learned that my preteen daughter is suicidal. She sent my brother videos detailing what's going on in her life, how she feels, and how she doesn't want to live sometimes.
Last night my best friend since childhood came out as being gay to me. I never would have known. This isn't going to have an impact on our friendship, but I now have to wrestle with that being a conservative, traditional Christian.
I'm heartbroken and destroyed, and very, very confused.
To all who may find themselves in the same misfortune which overtook me, I now write: Stand fast. Hope firmly in God, and the enemy will not keep ground. By the grace of God, I know that the Lord mercifully cares for us, and not one prayer is ever lost with God.
My wife left me a week before Christmas. Since then she's been cold and she hardly sees our children. It was an affair, I guess, and she's all in on it despite what anyone says to her.
If there's a divorce, don't let her get any custody of the children. Make sure you get full custody. Hire a lawyer who will help you navigate that. I'm not saying to actually divorce her, but to position yourself advantageously so that if she gets the divorce, she gets nothing, or at least nothing that matters. That may shock her into repentance, or it may not. Either way, you lose the least.She's moved in with the person and wants a divorce.
Prioritize her. Of course, a situation where her mother and the person her mother is with both do drugs is a dangerous situation for her, so don't let that happen.In January I learned that my preteen daughter is suicidal. She sent my brother videos detailing what's going on in her life, how she feels, and how she doesn't want to live sometimes.
Shocker, alright. Is he continuing to follow the Lord, or is he choosing homosexual relationships and/or encounters?Last night my best friend since childhood came out as being gay to me. I never would have known. This isn't going to have an impact on our friendship, but I now have to wrestle with that being a conservative, traditional Christian.
Why? Where - exactly - lies the confusion?I'm heartbroken and destroyed, and very, very confused.
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