Will it help to talk to my parents about my struggle with sin?

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Can speaking with my parents about struggle with sin help me stop sinning? I desperately want to stop! I need to do something, to stop!

My parents are secular, my mother is very sympathetic to the liberal narrative and my father is sort of neo-con-ish. I’m not sure how they will react if I tell them this, part of me is afraid that they’ll say it’s good and natural, and resisting it is unhealthy, though I think there’s something deeper behind my reluctance to tell them. If I speak to them about this, will it help me stop sinning?
 
YehoiakhinEx232 said:
Can speaking with my parents about struggle with sin help me stop sinning?
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In the end you’re responsible for your actions. I’m not sure what exposing your personal sins, outside of Confession, will accomplish. It’s really up to you.
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If I speak to them about this, will it help me stop sinning?
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Only you would know. :man_shrugging:t2:

You should be getting Spiritual Direction and possibly Counseling. Speak to your parents about these.
 
If your parents are secular, they probably don’t even believe in sin. Best to talk to a priest about this.
 
Available? Surely some Priest is available for scheduled Spiritual Direction. I wouldn’t consider him On Call 24/7.
 
You are an adult aren’t you? Its time to step up. Your parents have organised you medical professional help, Its time to step up and take that help.

if you are not an adult we can only advise you to do as your parents wish and have organised for you. We cannot advise you on your struggle with sin. Thats between you, them, your medical professionals and your priest.
 
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I don’t have a priestly spiritual director, I have a lay spiritual director, no priest at my diocese is qualified to be a spiritual director.
 
I messed up, I failed to explain things properly, I’m sorry.
redbetta said:
If your parents are secular, they probably don’t even believe in sin. Best to talk to a priest about this.
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Cruciferi said:
I’m not sure what exposing your personal sins, outside of Confession, will accomplish.
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I’m not, I’m telling them I’m struggling with sins.
mrsdizzyd said:
How old are you?
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27
Roseeurekacross said:
You are an adult aren’t you? Its time to step up. Your parents have organised you medical professional help, Its time to step up and take that help.
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I told you I have been seeing a Protestant therapist, the only Christian therapisst in my area, on a regular basis.

My parents are perfectly fine with this and haven’t suggested any other therapist since either early this year or late last year, it’s been so long ago, I can’t even remember.
 
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Since your a 27 year old Catholic, it’s best for you to go to Confession and schedule an appointment to talk to a priest, one on one. You can even do face to face Confession at the same time.
If you’re a special needs man, you might need a ride.
 
A Protestant is a Christian. We are Christians. Be at Peace. Explain to your therapist that you have a lot of anxiety over sin, and being Catholic all you need do is go to confession next time it’s on, And be sorry to God until then.

Ask your therapist for tactics to break habits.

Is your anxiety because you fear dying and going to hell in the time before you confess, or is it because you have offended a God.
 
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Roseeurekacross said:
Is your anxiety because you fear dying and going to hell in the time before you confess, or is it because you have offended a God.
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Both and neither, it’s hard to explain, there’s a lot going on in this. I guess part of it is, I know that sin offends God, and God is all-good and worthy of all my love and yet I still sin and offend Him, I also know that sin is worthy of eternal punishment and to sin is to send yourself to hell, and yet I still sin. Another thing is that God is what makes life worth living, without God everything is pointless and meaningless. When I sin, I feel like I completely cast off my whole purpose for being here, and while part of me is I’m hoping and waiting to go to confession, and another part of me is hoping my repeated acts of contrition are sufficient, part of me has lost the will to live and can do nothing just feel bitterness and resentment for a world that’s full of sin, that I just can’t seem to get out of. There are many more aspects of this, I actually had a third thing I was going to type down, but forgot it, I’m just frustrated by how I hate sin so much, yet I can never hate it enough, because if I did, I wouldn’t do it, yet I do do it despite how much I hate it.

I have managed to go to confession, am making an effort to see my lay spiritual director, by the way. He hasn’t been available recently he seems to be a bit under the weather. I’ll try seeing him again next week.
 
Do you get out and about, do you do any volunteer work, I know you are studying.
 
I am a parent. If one of my children were struggling with the sin I infer that you are struggling with—I would most definitely not want to know about it.
 
Sorry it took me so long to reply to you.

I have actually finished my College course several weeks earlier this month, although I have also just applied for my winter semester just a few minutes ago. I am working on, working up the courage to be more open with my Faith at my college, assuming this is a course where I’ll be present at the campus.

I do go out on a regular basis, once or twice a week, mostly to go to mass at the parish in the neighboring town. The parish there, has Adoration every Thursday, as well as confession, where as at my own parish, confession is only available on Saturday, and only if you can actually go up to the priest and ask him, and he has time to hear it. I have been considering doing some kind of volunteer work, or work of mercy at my parish, or in my community, but I’m having difficulty finding, and figuring out what my options are, and there is very little to do in my home region.
 
There are only a very few, there is Campaign Life Coalition, so maybe I could look into that.

I’ll look into this more, both Campaign Life Coalition, and what other Catholic Charities are present at my diocese, I’ll get back to you later.
 
One thing that strikes me - is the extent of you feeling convicted !
Be glad for that.
You don’t want to be calloused - ‘your conscience seared’ - as the bible says.
Seek out help - bring it out of the darkness -
It sure sounds like your already on the road to recovery.
 
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