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I have issues

Yes, I have issues. I've been beaten up enough on this board. I will try to be the best husband I can. I may not always do the right thing. I will try not to do the wrong thing. I am deeply in love with my wife and I wish I could show you just how much.

I hope I am still welcome here. I would like to think I can grow and while I hate to admit it, there is a lot of good advice here.

Re: I have issues

  • Love doesn't make an equal partnership work or even make a relationship healthy. Love does not magically solve clear issues that you have in your marriage. I don't understand the DEEPLY IN LOVE thing either. Mutual respect, compassion and empathy for e

  • I agree with PP, love is only part of it. 

    Also, stop board hopping. You are getting the same responses on each one. 

  • Look, I (and I guess most of the people on this board), don't want you to call yourself an . 

    We want you to change what you're doing. Not self-flagellate and miss the point, or self-flagellate and then keep on doing the same thing.

    Ap

  • imagedoglove:

    Love doesn't make an equal partnership work or even make a relationship healthy. Love does not magically solve clear issu

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  • imagedoglove:

    Love doesn't make an equal partnership work or even make a relationship healthy. Love does not magically solve clear issu

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  • I apologize for the hopping. I'll just keep it here.

    Alright, now I'm confused.  We were talking last night. She told me that when masses were first identified over a week ago, she was thinking how she thought only about how her life would b

  • Why do you need help? It sounds like you are both doing some communication. 
  • imageManther1222:
    Why do you need help? It sounds like you are both doing some communication. 

    In a way s

  • imagekptinker:

    imageManther1222:</str
    "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
    ~Benjamin Franklin

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    DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10

  • No please, I'm not trying to pose it as a problem. I'm hopeful for both of us. 
  • imagekptinker:

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  • imagekptinker:
    No please, I'm not trying to pose it as a problem. I'm hopeful for both of us. 

    If it

  • Actually there is a problem. It's Friday morning, we live maybe 1.5 miles from her parents. She has not seen her father since getting the diagnosis Tuesday morning. I keep telling her to go spend some time with her father. She keeps telling my why she can
  • Stop telling her what to do, how to act or respond to any given situation. You are not her father and she is a grown up. Support isn't forcing someone to be something you want them to be, support is accepting the person the way they are and WHO they ar

  • Jeeze!

    I SUGGESTED she see her father. She can't bring herself to do it. That's the problem, not whether I told, ordered or suggested she do it.

    I told her equals I said to her, "Go spend some time with your father. I have things here."

  • imagedoglove:

    Stop telling her what to do, how to act or respond to any given situation. You are not her father and she is a grown up.

  • imagekptinker:
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  • imagekptinker:
    Actually there is a problem. It's Friday morning, we live maybe 1.5 miles from her parents. She has not seen her father
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  • To all,

    My wife finally did spend some time with her father over the weekend. Unfortunately most of Sunday was spent in the hospital. He now has a blood clot in his liver that cannot be treated, the cancer is spreading exponentially, and he is lo

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