AndieJ

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  1. AndieJ

    HI!

    Welcome to the site and very cool going to Chicago. It's cold.
  2. My heart aches for you. I am so sorry, but please, please, like yourself. Never buy into the idea that you deserve this treatment. Maybe your husband is sick. Maybe he is a jerk. I don't know. But you do not deserve this treatment, and you are not doing him or yourself a favor by accepting it. Something has to change. And maybe divorce isn't the worst thing. You need to have faith in your abilities. There will be people along the way to help you. Reach out. Don't isolate yourself with no friends. You deserve better.
  3. Teens are disrespectful. If they get away with it then they become adults who are disrespectful--like your wife.
  4. I've wondered abou tthe sealing, too. Because in reality, we're not going to live with our families. Do I live with my parents, or my husbands. Do my children come with me, or their spouses, and their children. Really, I think it's all something we don't know. Sealing must be symbolic of the ties we will have in heaven. And surely, I have friends that I'm closer to than some members of my family. They have helped me, cared for me. They will be my friends in heaven.
  5. You want him to be strong in the church because God loves him. Not because the Church is tedious. Please, don't burden yourself and him or become guilt ridden. Do one thing that gets you and him out of hyour comfort zone or that you might not have done, and then you call it good. so many of the Young women's value projects, etc, are just things the girls are doing anyway. They aren't stretching. When you have a child that doing just a little more is stretching, that's problably more of an accomplishment than for a lot of these kids that complete it. Just do one thing. Just one thing, and then applaude both you and him, and move on with your busy schedule. Maybe next Sunday do one more thing. If standing up and getting the award is something that will make him feel good, then you decide how much he needs to do to stretch a little without feeling burdened, and then get him the award. I've had kids want it. I've had two that refused to do it because they didn't want to be forced into doing something like that. They turned out okay. Good luck. Andie HOpe this makes sense. Don't have time to reread. I have one of those kids who needs help with homework. I would love to hear how it goes.
  6. I do pray, but it's like they don't go anywhere. And then I sometimes think that maybe if we hadn't put so much emphasize on being sexually pure that he would have talked to me about things. At least there would have been a dialouge. How do you just live the days with your other kids? Thanks for answering and talking to me. I can't talk to anyone in the ward. My son is very personable. He is good looking and talks well to adults. Everyone thinks I am the luckiest mother in the world to have him. They just don't know it is two-faced. And certainly I don't want to walk around and discuss his problems. But I know he is hurting girls. I have trouble finding the beauty of the day.
  7. I'm new and I really don't know how to do this. I spend a lot of time online researching for other people, making sure what they write is correct, but I've never been in a social networking site. I might post this and then lose the thread and have no idea if anyone responds to me at all. But I guess I'm reaching out. We live in an area where the church isn't very strong and my son is following the "not strong" route. He is 17 and anything we catch him doing he denies. He goes to seminary. He goes to church. He comes to family scripture study. But I know he is immoral. What do you do? What has anyone done? I'm kind of sick all the time.