Talk About Marriage - View Single Post - I've fought and fought..this is my last stand

dbj1971 · 06-20-2008, 05:48 PM

Man,

Your letter made me cry. It sounds like it's coming from a mature man who is willing to do what it takes for his marriage.

If you give this letter to your wife, and she doesn't feel at least some compassion and warmth toward you, if it doesn't soften her toward you just a little, then brother she is blinded by anger or has reached a place of severe hardening of the heart, like Pharaoh in Exodus, in which only God can help her. I hope that's not the case, and that she will have at least some of the positive reaction I did when I read it. She should - she's your wife, for crying out loud; I'm a stranger to you. Your letter is one of the most beautiful things I have read in a long time, probably in my whole life. I can almost feel your pain and your devoted love and sincere longing! I pray that you both get fully back together and have a blessed marriage!

By the way, Draconis, I don't see anything wrong with the man using his wife's first name. I can understand not using the last name, too, but there's probably 10 million or more Shelleys in the United States, and we have no idea of "hitrockbottom's" real name. So, using "Shelly" doesn't really narrow it down enough to give away anyone's identity. Not meaning to be argumentative, but I felt that the first response to this man's heartfelt pain on this thread shouldn't be a rebuke for some technical rule violation; it was out of place.

06-20-2008, 05:48 PM	#3 (permalink)
dbj1971 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 13	Re: I've fought and fought..this is my last stand Man, Your letter made me cry. It sounds like it's coming from a mature man who is willing to do what it takes for his marriage. If you give this letter to your wife, and she doesn't feel at least some compassion and warmth toward you, if it doesn't soften her toward you just a little, then brother she is blinded by anger or has reached a place of severe hardening of the heart, like Pharaoh in Exodus, in which only God can help her. I hope that's not the case, and that she will have at least some of the positive reaction I did when I read it. She should - she's your wife, for crying out loud; I'm a stranger to you. Your letter is one of the most beautiful things I have read in a long time, probably in my whole life. I can almost feel your pain and your devoted love and sincere longing! I pray that you both get fully back together and have a blessed marriage! By the way, Draconis, I don't see anything wrong with the man using his wife's first name. I can understand not using the last name, too, but there's probably 10 million or more Shelleys in the United States, and we have no idea of "hitrockbottom's" real name. So, using "Shelly" doesn't really narrow it down enough to give away anyone's identity. Not meaning to be argumentative, but I felt that the first response to this man's heartfelt pain on this thread shouldn't be a rebuke for some technical rule violation; it was out of place.