Family Forum / Marriage / Marriage / March 2006

Your teenage daughter (my stepdaughter) is completely out of control.
She's drinking heavily, doing drugs, sleeping with anyone and everyone,
 disappearing for days at a time, and in general - f*** up.  Two
psychiatrists have diagnosed her as bipolar.  So what do you do?  You

my husband is a compulsive liar...
I have tried to stay and work things out but they lies keep coming.. and all
he can do is whine because I don't trust him and he says he has earned my
trust...

Seems to me that assertiveness often (or lately) gets confused with
aggression or disrespectfulness or confrontation.
As far as I understand it it's not supposed to be any of the above!
I thought I'd share a few links on the subject for reading or

Kitty -- I believe you are sincerely wanting to be helpful and I apologize
for being so disrespectful of your advice.
--
Ted

While I haven't been as nasty to you as I have to Kitty, I have been much
less accepting of your advice than I like to think of myself as being. I
believe you are sincerely trying to help too.
--

...your wife that you love her, but you don't like her?

I have never posted a message before but now I think it's time.I am
wondering if anyone has ever been in my shoes? I ve been married for 4
years and we recently had a baby (she is a 4.5 months old). I would say
my marriage was kind of on the rocks sometimes, but now it seems like

  This is my first time posting here. I have been maried for 3 years
now. I have 2 teenage kids, one 19 and one 18,  and he has 3 younger
children from a previous marriage. We were both married once before. I
want a child with this man. I never felt this sort of love or yearning

I hate my wife. I hate my kids. I'm having an affair with a student and
this morning I've started to be haunted by Chris Morris of Brasseye
fame. Please, someone tell me all this is worth it.
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The other post led me to think of Dana Reeves, and I realized that no one on
this ng has mentioned her death... so I will.
Dana Reeves is one of my "marriage role models".  This excerpt from the
MSNBC article about her death pretty much sums up why:

Welcome to look International marriage website from Ukraine, Kiev
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There are many profiles of marriage minded girls and ladies.
Experienced agency Aprilbeauty.net (6 years of successful work) will be

find the love of your life in the Phillippines or other Far East
countries, wonderful women, beautiful and sincere...
http://www.out-east.com

So DW calls me this past Friday, as she is out at the Mall shopping, I
am at work. She states - "(DW best friend 1& 2) are going to (Dance
club) Friday Night to celebrate (DW best friend 1) divorce finalizing.
But I am not going because I know you (me) will give me (dw) a guilt

Our Heavenly Father says, "Most time jealousy is a condition driven by
wrong thinking, wrong understanding, wrong interpretation."
REVELATION DELIVERED THROUGH FRANCES M. KLUG
ON JUNE 17,2005 AT 10:55 A.M.

 A musing which I'll try to drag on to topic ...
 In a different group, a guy is being ticked that I'm not impressed
(he feels, he's not reading what I'm actually writing) with a 'top 5%
performance'.  It's probably a bad situation to be in that your