10-07-2009, 12:55 PM
Please offer a prayer on behalf of our family, we need our Lords support and wisdom at a very trying time.
Briefly, my wife has left me. She has decided to disassociated herself this past week and now she has said that she has only been staying and trying to keep working through things because of "the truth". Now that she is no longer a witness she said she is done.
Our life has been very stressful for years now, as I have noted in previous posts. She has been undergoing serious mental and emotional problems for over a year now.
I have really tried to patiently and gently support her while continuing in the daily struggle to care for the rest of my family materialy and as a dad. Lately she has gone back to drinking heavily and physically hurting herself along with bringing people into our home who will not respect my children or me by drinking, smokeing and swearing loudly in our home. I have patiently tried to endure this, while letting my concerns be known, because I know she is just not well.
But I have finally got to a point were I just dont know what else to do, I see very little hope. So I expressed that I could not continue to let these things go on in our home for the sake of the children. I do not want to raise them around that kind of stuff. I told her friends that they could not come here anymore. ( I have asked them more times than I can recall to please be respectful of my children and my home, but it just falls on deaf ears.) Anyway, I guess that was the last straw for her and she left. She has taken the 4 youngest children with her and also her friends are of course still around them, this just kills me. I worry about them and her and I just feel so helpless.
Her family that are witnesses have said that if we had continued to go to the meetings this would not have happened. That makes me feel horrible and full of guilt. Maybe their right , I dont know, but I do know that the meetings never seemed to help , only to add to our stress. The congregation was absolutly no support, in fact just the opposite, very uncaring and selfrighteous. We have no family close by and all in the congregation were just too busy. I just cant help but think that if things in the congregation were done more in line with what is outlined in the scriptures then those who are in the greatest need would find a little relief there. They are so concerned with only preaching that so many are falling out the back door.
Well, I guess that wasnt too brief, but thanks for letting me cry on your shoulder awhile.:crybaby: Please pray for us, we really need His help from above.
many thanks to all :heartbeat::heartbeat::heartbeat:Jayme
Briefly, my wife has left me. She has decided to disassociated herself this past week and now she has said that she has only been staying and trying to keep working through things because of "the truth". Now that she is no longer a witness she said she is done.
Our life has been very stressful for years now, as I have noted in previous posts. She has been undergoing serious mental and emotional problems for over a year now.
I have really tried to patiently and gently support her while continuing in the daily struggle to care for the rest of my family materialy and as a dad. Lately she has gone back to drinking heavily and physically hurting herself along with bringing people into our home who will not respect my children or me by drinking, smokeing and swearing loudly in our home. I have patiently tried to endure this, while letting my concerns be known, because I know she is just not well.
But I have finally got to a point were I just dont know what else to do, I see very little hope. So I expressed that I could not continue to let these things go on in our home for the sake of the children. I do not want to raise them around that kind of stuff. I told her friends that they could not come here anymore. ( I have asked them more times than I can recall to please be respectful of my children and my home, but it just falls on deaf ears.) Anyway, I guess that was the last straw for her and she left. She has taken the 4 youngest children with her and also her friends are of course still around them, this just kills me. I worry about them and her and I just feel so helpless.
Her family that are witnesses have said that if we had continued to go to the meetings this would not have happened. That makes me feel horrible and full of guilt. Maybe their right , I dont know, but I do know that the meetings never seemed to help , only to add to our stress. The congregation was absolutly no support, in fact just the opposite, very uncaring and selfrighteous. We have no family close by and all in the congregation were just too busy. I just cant help but think that if things in the congregation were done more in line with what is outlined in the scriptures then those who are in the greatest need would find a little relief there. They are so concerned with only preaching that so many are falling out the back door.
Well, I guess that wasnt too brief, but thanks for letting me cry on your shoulder awhile.:crybaby: Please pray for us, we really need His help from above.
many thanks to all :heartbeat::heartbeat::heartbeat:Jayme