May 2007 Weddings
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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This pisses me off.
Ever since Mandy posted the TheKnotPostSecret, I've gone back and read them here and there.
I ran across this one today:
My heart goes out to the fact she may not be able to have kids. The part that pisses me off is "If the Church found out, they wouldn't marry us."
FOR REAL?! There are churches out there like that?! I want to go find them and yell at them.
Re: This pisses me off.
At first I thought you were mad at me for posting the knot post secret! Whew.
Um, yeah, I don't know any churches like that but if there ARE churches like that out there, I'm glad I'm not a member. Although my pastor kind of rubbed me the wrong way on Sunday. He was talking about motherhood and how women are made for it (true - men don't quite have the ability to birth babies) but something he said made it sound like it was our responsibility AS women to have kids, as in, if we aren't mothers, we aren't fulfilling our roles in the world. I can't remember his exact comment, and maybe I was just a little overly sensitive about it, but it ticked me off.
And I totally went off subject....
It's sad that there are places like this that exist.
DH and I were talking and apparently one of his cousins (who pretty much exiled himself from the family) is married and belongs to a church that says you are only to have sex to reproduce. Now I know that the catholic church has similar beliefs (i.e. no birth control) but the way DH worded it, it was more like you only have sex to have a baby and that his cousin and his wife don't have sex because they are not ready for a kid or maybe don't want one. So I guess they are married and have no physical contact, maybe just emotional. I never met him though , he lives in AZ, not sure if the story is true or not.
Okay, I realize this may make me out to be a sex addict, but seriously?! I think this would make life incredibly depressing, not to mention unhealthy. The additional frustration alone must be insane!!
I was in somewhat similar situation when I went to that Pentecostal church. I was a freaking teenager, FCOL, and always felt dirty and bad because I had normal teenage thoughts/hormones.
But to be MARRIED and sex not be okay?!? Yikes...
This. The church I went to never said it in that many words, but I got the feeling that if you were unable to have a kid you were "looked down on" by god.
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