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You must be having a laugh here. Nope, not laughing. If a man treats her right, that is where a woman's beauty blossoms. Just like Amillia posted earlier: "That is a load of C R A P! The more secure my husband makes me feel, the more I have energy to make him happy and the more I want to please him and let him know how much I appreciate his hard work for our family. I am exercising up a storm these days for just that reason. The only times I have gotten out of shape is when I have been made to feel like it wasn't worth it to keep myself up, which has everything to do with how my husband treats me. " Simple really. :)

None of us "deserve" what comes our way--the good or the bad. Whatever happens to us is the result of living in an imperfect world. Prayer is a way of adjusting our own attitude to meet the challenges and blessings that will inevitably come our way in spite of anything we may or may not do. Prayer doesn't change God's mind. It changes ours. Very good - I like your post better than mine. :) The Traveler I don't know, I put them both "on file". :) If it's okay I would like to expand of Curvettes post about prayer. I like what she said but in retrospect, is she saying that an earnest prayer doesn't really change an outcome? We live in an imperfect world so things happen, so good and some bad. If we want to talk with our Father In Heaven, through prayer, about adjusting a possible outcome we have no power? I am not so sure I "want" to believe that. What about a child who is lost and afraid and prays for comfort? This is a principal that I have been taught since early in my childhood. Is the principal of prayer as we know it wrong? I know that there are several here who have said that they do not pray. I have silently wondered if it is because they believe that prayers have no effect, or they no one is there to listen.

Curvette,Did you author that? It is very poetic. :)

Yes, He is very cute! Happy Belated Birthday too! Is Isaac your first child?

Our grandmothers were very great women and our grandfathers treated them as they should be treated. If more men treated their wives with love and respect they would be astounded as to the care they would receive in return. Non-sense. The better men treat women, the less the men get of what they want. As soon as women feel secure, they stop taking care of themselves and pretty much ignore the guy. That is a load of C R A P! The more secure my husband makes me feel, the more I have energy to make him happy and the more I want to please him and let him know how much I appreciate his hard work for our family. I am exercising up a storm these days for just that reason. The only times I have gotten out of shape is when I have been made to feel like it wasn't worth it to keep myself up, which has everything to do with how my husband treats me. Last night I asked my husband how I looked in a new pair of work out shorts... I thought maybe they were too short. He looked at me and stumbled around the question and then replied "how do you want me to answer that?" I let him know with that answer he just did. It was truly THE most painful thing he has ever said to me. Our anniversary is Wed. Don't think it will be a happy one. For the record... I am 5"7 and weigh 125. I feel real inspired to let him touch me. NOT Amen to all of my sisters above! Blessed, I know exactly what you are saying and I am sorry. I was that weight when I married and I was very pleased with myself. Please try to forget that he said that to you because pain like that only hurts the woman. Many times when woman are hurt they feel empty inside and they eat to fill a void. That is why we need to ignore comments such as those because they hurt so deeply. I find it better just to never ask how we look from them. All we have to do is wait to hear it from another man from a "look" that is cast our way. Men have such fragile ego¡Çs, which is why I said earlier in this post that it is such a sad thing for them to rely on a trophy wife to fulfill the man's self worth. I think that Cal might be practicing his court room antics on the woman of LDSTalk. Disruptive is young and has been burned by his mistakes so his words come from his short life experiences, although I am not sure what he has against our grandmothers. Women are quite simple in their needs and desires and if a man can discover what bring out her "beauty", he is a very lucky man indeed!

I can feel some of the pain that you are enduring through your posts. I am sorry that you are in pain and that you are feeling so alone. I wished that I had the answers for you but I don't. I do know that in my life, prayers have not always given me the things that I desire, but I have felt more love from my Father in Heaven. When you cut off prayer you sever the lines of communication with Him...

SF, your dream seems more like a "you can't go back to the past" kind of dream. The house you remember so pleasantly could represent a time of your life that you reflect back on longingly (even if only in your dreams), and when you revisit that time, you see how idyllic it was, and staying there is representative of wishing to return to it, but you become uncomfortable in the end, which could signify that you need to move on. It could carry a similar spiritual connotation. It is very symbolic to me. I believe that you could be right. Maybe now, I won't be dreaming that dream. I also think that you could be on to something about this dream being much deeper. Thank you for posting your reply.

So did they do a scan of some sort?

One of the dreams that my husband hates are the dreams that feel so real that I am mad at him for something he did in the dream.

Yes, to simplify would be wonderful. Yes, too about our house being too big. Sometimes I can go a week without going into our basement...it is even emptier since my son got married in June.As I think about they days in that house and I feel that I was really happy there. Our ward was very close and my children were small. Although it can be hard at times when you have small children, it is also a great time in a mother¡Çs life. Nah, I think that I will forego that movie. I learned along time ago that my spirit does better with light hearted shows. Thanks for the warning though.

Reoccurring Dream Dreams are very interesting to me. I don't always remember my dreams but sometimes I do. Through out my life I have had different reoccurring dreams. The one that I have now is one where my family lived in another town 9 years ago. It is mostly about the cute, small home we lived in that is about half the size of this one. In my dream, we had sold it back to the lady we had purchased it from. She was not going to use it for awhile so she allowed us to keep some of our things there. She also told us that when we can into town that we could use the home. I have "gone back there" on several occasions in my dreams. The dream plays back almost identically each time. We go to that town and move in with just our clothes because we are able to get by with just the other items that we had left behind. We pull into the garage, and enter into the kitchen where everything looks as if we had just left. We take a tour through the rest of the house and find everything in place. We visit with some friends and neighbors and have some dinner there. As we are preparing to go to sleep we find a few things that must belong to the owner and we feel bad about being there. Because it is late, we decide that we will pack up and leave the next morning. In the morning the good feelings that we had felt the day before have left us and we hurry to get things put back the way they were. We think that maybe it is time to move all of our things out of this home but we choose not to take them with us. I wonder why this dream keeps appearing in my sleep.

Our grandmothers were very great women and our grandfathers treated them as they should be treated. If more men treated their wives with love and respect they would be astounded as to the care they would receive in return. Non-sense. The better men treat women, the less the men get of what they want. As soon as women feel secure, they stop taking care of themselves and pretty much ignore the guy. So, you say that you currently have a great marriage. I guess that would mean that you treat your wife bad?

Wow. I sounds like you have this mastered.

SF, I don't care how much faith you or anyone has... if you are a mom and something like this happens to your child, you WILL worry. Please don't feel bad for it, or try not to do it. If there is a mom who goes through something like this and she DOESN'T worry, she does not lack faith - SHE IS A ZOMBIE! Take care and hang in there. Sounds like he's going to be just fine now. Shan Thanks Shan, I just saw this.

Our grandmothers were very great women and our grandfathers treated them as they should be treated. If more men treated their wives with love and respect they would be astounded as to the care they would receive in return.

Most of the spirits I have witnessed have been "heard" and "felt". I will have to think hard as to if I have actually "seen" a spirit. Now my question to you would be what on earth would you be doing in a cemetery at midnight? Maybe that would be my problem of not actually seeing a spirit.

a week yesterday (2 fridays ago) If you are still having headaches you should see a doctor. If you head was hurt during the attack their could be some internal problems.

I am not sure what you mean about the anger. What I feel bad about is the lack of justice here. Because they were lax in their training methods Nick will live with a traumatic brain injury for the rest of his life. He will have to endure more surgeries and worry about infections. An infection to the plate in his head could go directly to his brain. Although Nick is very blessed to be alive, he is a changed young man in many aspects of his life. I am working at making the lack of training to be something that is against the law. Currently no formal training is required to work at that machine. Most tire shops, which I checked with, require training and or certification before a new employee is allowed to work on this machine. The company that employed my son gave very casual training. I personally believe that I have done a very good job at keeping anger in check. To me anger is a non productive emotion and that is the reason why I am looking to make a change for other tire shop workers.

2 members are celebrating their birthday today >DisRuptive1 (21) >Dravin (21) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm just pondering what I would do in your situation (this is not advice--just my thoughts.) I hate what some greedy people (and their lawyers) have done to our insurance rates, and medical costs, BUT--if there ever was a case to sue big, I'd say it was this one. A business putting a child in this kind of danger because of their failure to properly train their employees to use dangerous equipment is BIGTIME wrong. I'm sure they are sorry and feel terrible, but I'd be getting a good attorney. (and I've never sued anyone in my life.) Thanks and I agree. We are looking into the possibilities with product liability, but the employer is VERY protected by workers comp. I have never sued anyone either. The employer is a great man as a human being, but he seriously failed Nick and our family as an employer.

I remember. I can see a "vulturish" woman moving in on a man like that. What I can't see is a son picking out a date for his dad when mom is barely gone. I agree with you on the grief process. Curvette, something I forgot to mention is that my own brother was and still is more supportive of my dad on this. His reasoning has been that he just wants to see my dad happy. The truth is that I want to see him happy too but a woman, who has disrespected my mother by showing up at her viewing the way she did, deserves no respect from me. How I deal with her in my dads life is that he believes that she is a good woman despite of my feeling and her multiple marriages so she is tolerated. I think that maybe this son is trying to find someone for his father to fill the void he has for losing his wife. The way my brother and I feel about my dad and his happiness are different but I don't feel that he is wrong for feeling the way he does. I am sorry that you have to feel the pain of losing your friend, and then viewing this. Your feeling are one of loyality to a good friend.

Thanks for caring. :) The thing that hurts him the most right now is his hip where they did the bone graph. It is at these times that the strong emotions I have about the employers negligence in training come to surface. Seeing my child in pain because of this really stinks.

This is a topic that touches my everyday life because of the loss of my own mom. A vulture of a woman came to my mom's viewing with "motive" on her mind. I saw her motive when she had not seen my dad for 20 years and then she shows up at my mom's viewing to "hit on" my vulnrunable father. This vulture has not let my dad have a moment’s peace and my father has buried him grief along with my mom. My dad has become so forgetful that we thought that he might be having early signs of alzheimers. After seeing the doctor it is determined that he may very well be depressed. It is not good for a person the skip the grieving process. I do however understand that men, the weaker sex , have a very difficult time being alone. The bottom line here is that if you don't go though grief, it will chase you down and make you sick.

For those who have been so kind to my family, here is an update. Today has been a very long but productive day… We arrived at the hospital at 5:30 a.m. and they began prepping Nick for surgery. He entered the operating room about 7:30 and he were able to meet with the doctor about 2:00 p.m. The surgery was a success! Nick is now resting in his room for the night. He currently has a rapid heartbeat and a slight fever. They tell me that it is no surprise with all that he has been through. Thank you for all of your prayers and support.

In my old ward, there was a woman who was teaching a concept about the whole world becoming circumscribed and she raised both arms in front of her and proceeded to make two huge circles. She exclaimed that "The whole world became circumcised, circumcised!" Sister Burns, never caught on to what she was saying either. My guess is that nobody had the heart to tell her.