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I will pray for you. by RedIrish

I've got some unsolicited advice for you to take or leave:

1. Document everything as best you can.

2. When you feel that it's too hard (and likely you will), ask God for help getting through the day, hour, or even minute. I see from your profile that you consider yourself lost in the wilderness. I have been there too. What I found is that in going through life's most difficult hardships I discovered the reality of God in my own life and that he loves and cares for me more than I can comprehend. Getting through those things was the foundation for my current happiness, and I have a stronger relationship with and faith in God than my peers who haven't been tried by fire.

3. Your kids are lucky to have you. Keep loving them with all your heart.

4. Consider finding a professional to talk to yourself. Some guidance navigating through your own emotions could be extremely useful. Or consider attending an Al-Anon meeting.

5. If I may be so bold, if you can get to a place where you can honestly pray for your wife, it will help you and her. Addiction is heartbreaking for everyone touched by it, but there is a way out of that for her if she can find her way to being open to it. But you literally can't do anything to help her be open to it.

God bless you. My apologies if this is unartfully stated. I'm on my way out the door but was moved by what you wrote.