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- Last weekend my MIL told us that our ED told her that she had rededicated her life to the Lord. This is the best news we could ever get, this is what we wish and pray for all our EC. Upon being prompted by MIL, ED phoned us about a couple days ago...
- Hi all. I've been thinking a lot about how the personalities in our family affect our estrangements. Very simply put, my DH and I are introverts - we need time to ourselves to recharge. Two of our EC are introverts and our third is the only...
- I think I wrote a few months ago that my MIL (who I do love) was attempting to moderate things between our ES and us. We asked our ES not to put any of our parents in the middle of this, they are elderly and do not need the stress, but he did so...
- Hi all. We have been praying for wisdom for months now in regard to our ES and his gf. Our ES is notoriously desperate to marry. We've been warning him about his current gf from the moment we knew he was considering dating her. He went ahead. ...
- It happened again today. I got an email from my MIL - in spite of the fact that I asked her to phone me instead of email because to me emails are more upsetting. Anyhow, our ES apparently decided to email both sets of our parents to tell that in a...
- I was reading in the book of Samuel the last few days and was reminded that both Eli's sons and Samuel's sons were rebellious and did not serve the Lord. 1 Samuel 2:12 "Eli's sons were wicked men; they had no regard for the Lord."Eli confronted...
- Here I am again, stressed out, trying to find a solution. I have one or maybe two "good" days and then whamo we get hit with more from ES1. I just now had a momentary dream that if I could fast forward to a year from now and somehow did not get...
- I think I mentioned earlier last week that we asked our ES not to involve our parents in the issue we have with his gf. We told him in very clear terms. It just puts them in between us and they do not understand how much he wants to manipulate...
- I'm just stepping out on a small limb here and wanted to write how I feel tonight. I don't expect people to agree but maybe there is just somebody out there who might feel alone and feel the same way I do. Here goes, I wish I'd never had kids. I...
- A couple of months ago I asked you all if you thought it a good idea for DH and I to take a break from one of our ES who had been barraging us with texts, email, phone calls to remind us of what terrible parents we are and how wrong we are for not...
- .....when your son/daughter was about to marry the wrong person?It sounds like there are many of us who have been through this or are going through this and it sounds like a factor in many estrangements. We pray every day for our ES and gf to break...
- I secretly refer to my MIL as Pollyanna! I guess the insinuation there is that she is a very positive person but naïve. I love her but she does look at life through rose colored glasses. My rose colored glasses fell off my head and got trampled...
- I just came across this post on fb by Ann Voskamp. I had never heard of her before but I sure liked what she had to say today:Lord, there are women tonight who feel forgotten, who feel like failures, who are flailing in these oceans of unspoken...
- I have to admit that it has been pretty rare in recent months for me to have hours in a day where my mind doesn't go to the issues we have with our EC. I find that there are so many reminders of them in a day that even when I'm happily focusing on...
- I found this group a few weeks ago and it has been so helpful for me to read all of your topics and comments. Initially I ask you all if taking some time off from engaging our 3rd basically EC was prudent. After consideration and prayer we asked...