Oh wow. Lots of comments. My wife and I did talk, and I will update tomorrow as I need some time to mull it over and process it. I will say it went… Okay. Not bad, but not great either. Just for your clarity since there seems to be a lot of talk about the clothing, my wife dressed like this several months ago:
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So, she went from dressing like your average at-home mom to the Lillies of the Field stuff.
It’s a pretty drastic change. Thank you all so much for your prayers and thoughts. I will update soon in a more complete way.
Normally I would be calm and hopeful and write off most arguments as a simple lovers spat (let’s be honest those happen about anything and everything) but this topic is… hard for me. My mother went down this same path so I understand the why quite clearly.
There’s a clarity and security to being so traditional. Everything is so cut and dry, your living in the moment of exhortation as your digging deeper into religion finding old knowledge that most people never learn.
But that’s just sweet smell of the devils crafty trap, Pride.
You know more then the average catholic, you do more then the average catholic. Soon you stop trusting most priest because most seem to be too worldly. Your learning deep truths about Catholicism without guidance from anyone without proper education from people farther down in the trap then you. Misinterpretations are common place as fear rules your every interaction with the ‘corrupt’ society outside your home.
You turn inward and away from most people. You stop going to beaches because you feel everyone is immodest. You cut out tv and Internet because the slightest temptation is a slippery slope. You only hang out with ‘holy’ families and chastise you children when you find out they have friends who are not like you are but not out right discouraging these friendships till you learn they watch Harry potter or something.
See this entire thing would be okay ish if it was just one person but its not. Your repressing your children as they loss touch with reality.
And as I said before your burying your talent. Gods investment in you is wasted because now you alienated yourself your children from the so called corrupt world that you can’t ‘live’ in it.
It’s a terrible crime IMHO and I pray that no child no family has to go through what’s happening to you or what has happened to me.
My family is broken, save yours before your children have what’s happening to me now where my mother has a list of demands before she even is willing to attend my wedding this fall.
Don’t let that happen to your family!
Walk with God.
