i'll start this post off by saying i love my wife, she has beautiful qualities and a sweet personality.
however i realize (and i think she does too, though she may not admit it) that since i left the org behind our goals and viewpoints are no longer unified.
as a couple we rarely fight or argue, we still have many of the same values but yet we have some issues that i know will never be fully resolved.
Just another thing...
I also think, Leander, that you need to seek professional help to insure that you make the best choices for your situation. Regardless of what anyone posts here.
Either way, each choice is a risk, and there will be deep regrets whichever way you go, as I am sure there already are now.
i'll start this post off by saying i love my wife, she has beautiful qualities and a sweet personality.
however i realize (and i think she does too, though she may not admit it) that since i left the org behind our goals and viewpoints are no longer unified.
as a couple we rarely fight or argue, we still have many of the same values but yet we have some issues that i know will never be fully resolved.
Well, I'm not of the "do whatever you want to make you happy either".
Sheesh! Makes me wonder if some of you read the WHOLE post. The guy stated he wants to have children and doesn't want them in the JW religion. His wife is a fervent JW. Sounds like the making of a war zone, and I, quite frankly, wouldn't want innocents caught in the middle. And, even though they could make an "agreement" on how the children are raised, how many times have we read about when the kids actually come, the JW parent makes a 180.
It's very apparent that Leander loves his wife dearly. However, love does not overcome all.
I'm not advocating divorce, but those other issue are very important and have to be seriously considered.
i'll start this post off by saying i love my wife, she has beautiful qualities and a sweet personality.
however i realize (and i think she does too, though she may not admit it) that since i left the org behind our goals and viewpoints are no longer unified.
as a couple we rarely fight or argue, we still have many of the same values but yet we have some issues that i know will never be fully resolved.
You should feel bad. That is one of the most pathtic reason for getting a divorce. I can understand the Jw / non-JW thing but wanting to get divorced so you can bang someone else is low.
Yo Roy! Ease up. Obviously, the JW issue is the deal breaker. He's struggling and that is a side issue. Something that was considered unthinkable when he was a JW and unmarried.
AND, quite frankly, MANY people think the same thing, they just don't admit it to themselves, let alone others.
In my opinion, Leander, unless she leaves The society, or you become a JW again, divorce is inevitable.
just another adventure in my returning to the work force.
(wal-mart) when i worked almost 2 decades ago, women just put up with whatever was said/done to them.
i could completely identify with anita hill.. one evening last week, i was in our break room with one young female associate and two young male associates.
It's difficult, especially for young women, to know when it's sexual harassment. There are times,also, when some idiot shreeks sexual harrassment and it makes it difficult for everyone who truly experience it.
My spouse had a female co-worker, a number of years ago, go to management and accuse him of sexual harrassment. She started coming on to him, and when he rebuffed her advances, she made the claim. Idiot. My spouse fought it, but he had to fight it hard and threatened to go to the main coporate offices if she didn't retract the whole sham. She did.
When I was 19, I worked for a very male dominated company. For the most part, women were simply not promoted. When I started to make some waves because I wanted to work my way up, I got harassed big time. One even threatening to cut my breasts off. Now, this was in 1978 and sexual harrassment was not a phrase yet. I did complain, and it stopped, but I was "marked" from then on. Now, the company has many females in management now. They were disgusting creeps when I worked for them, though.
A few years later, I'm with another company, and a male co-worker, out of the blue, pinched my butt. That pissed me off. Still, sexual harrassment was not coined yet. But, after what I went through with the last company, I vowed never to allow any males to threaten, or touch me, without exacting a very heavy price. So, I plotted my revenge against this dude. The next time he walked by my desk, I grabbed his nipple, and twisted HARD. He was into body building and he had a very nice one to grab on to and he got a titty twister to remember. My hand had him in a pitbull vice and nothing would have gotten me to let go. I twisted and twisted until he began to yell out in pain. This got the attention of the rest of the staff (about 40 people). The guy is screaming "let go, let go!". I growl back, "not until you are on your knees"! He immediately drops to his knees and I draw my hand back and tell him "I'll bet you never touch me again, but just in case you do,remember this, next time it won't be your nipple, it will be your balls".
You could have heard a pin drop on a shag carpet that is how quiet it got. Everyone was shocked, but that guy never came near me again.
I'm not suggesting someone to that, but luckily for me, it worked beautifully.
My advice to young women is not to be intimated and tell the guys, right to their faces, to KNOCK IT OFF. Otherwise, it going to be reported.
the organisation said america's offensive against global terrorism was "bankrupt of vision" and had "made the world a more dangerous place".
"sacrificing human rights in the name of security at home, turning a blind eye to abuses abroad and using pre-emptive military force where and when it chooses, have neither increased security nor ensured liberty," she said.. the world should have expected the shocking photographs of iraqi prisoners being tortured at abu ghraib prison in iraq, ms khan said.
"this is the logical consequence of the relentless pursuit of the war on terror since 11 september.
At the risk of being put in "the box" or deactivated..
Simon,
You must have been salivating at the sight of this article and giddy at the chance to post it.
a bit of fluff, .
i have the fanta orange tune & pic.
i think i'm in need of an update, my mobile is a nokia and is 2 years old.
A picture of my two kids is my screen saver.
"Insane in the Brain" my ringer
i have had a rough couple of weeks with these kidney stones.
i would have liked to take a few days off to recover but i have contracts to complete before i fly off to frenchbabyface land.. this last monday i was hurting pretty bad but managed to suffer though a day of site prep for a big tile job.
i came home about 3 pm and cleaned up and went to bed.
You don't have the balls to tell the women to take a hike (but apparently have the balls for the other) and then ask what's wrong with US?
Please...
sometimes when i log on to jwd i go directly to "jokes and humor" because i know that there will be something there that will crack me up.
i love to laugh and i think humor is great therapy especially when alot of us have been through so much.
its great that we can make fun of ourselves and can find the humour in many of our experiences.
Hands down: Expatbrit.
Didn't always agree with his politics, but what a wit!
I miss him.
(yeah, I know where he is, but it ain't the same. )
my mother told me that the co gave a talk on how a spider spins his web and it can take a very long time for the web to be made but just like that--- before you know it---it can catch its prey and devour it.
it's the same with the world wide web, the internet.
there are reports, according to the co, that in new york, a very prominent "anointed" man was disfellowshipped and he has his owm website where he has answered many jws questions.
My mother can remember when TV first came out and they called it the Devil's eyeball.
My JW Grandmother called TV that, too.
this is just off topic of a recent thread about britney or beyonce.
how many of you guys out there prefer a real woman with curves.
how many of you guys prefer a boney stick body?.
So, like what guy is going to post on this thread declaring his attraction for an extremely slender woman?
The dude would get clobbered.
For the majority of men, personality is just as important as looks. And men don't judge us nearly as harsh as us women judge ourselves and each other.
I get fed up with the skinny vs fat war. I think it's most important to be HEALTHY.
Ask anyone who has battled cancer.
I knew many a young woman when I, and they, were in our twenties. Stunning to look at some of them were. Their youth cloaked the dirty secrets of laxatives, vomiting, and starvation. One marathon runner I knew had thrown up so many times, she had broken her essophagus twice. Dr warned her that he might not be able to repair it a third time. Then, there was the rotting teeth from being bathed continously in stomach acid.
Another beautiful young woman took over 100 laxatives a day. On the outside, thin and picture of health.
Careful about that outside package. It can be very deceptive.
Then there was the extreme of Karen Carpenter.
Skinny doesn't do ya much good if you're dead.
