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Several people offered scripture that they felt fitted the situation referred to.  Evidently you feel that you have the only insight.  I disagree.

I meant it's his loss not to ''use'' it!!  (second paragraph)

Hey Holten,It is definitely a familiar theme!  We gave the eldest a prepaid phone when he turned 12, and sure enough, within a few months, he was no longer buying cards to update the phone.  He simply never used it.  When he turned 13, we put him on our plan and gave him a cell phone for his birthday.  He paid the $10 fee per ...

BcauseHeLives:My daughter is part of the prom committee at school.  I suggested The Garden of Eden, but she said no one would vote yes for it.  Any ideas?Not a ''Carrie'' theme then?Sorry.

I wasn't advocating for either the SCF website or the EMB book, although my h used the latter and it helped him greatly.  I was simply pointing out that this is obviously not a man only issue, or there would be no need for a companion book to EMB which is Every Woman's Battle, and there would not be a need for SCF to have a course for females ...

So I looked and I found the thread, and I know that much of this does not pertain to your husband because this was an ongoing problem with my husband.  However, if you have the patience to read through it, I think that much of the advice that was given to me about my marriage, and the trust issue may just help you.  I hope so.  Don't

I just wanted to ask you - a few posts back you said he keeps asking if you're okay.  What do you answer to that?   Have you shared with him any of the feelings that you have where you are struggling to regain trust in him?  He does need to know - and the counselor will help with this - that it takes time to regain trust, and he

Darn, I hate that I can't edit.  One thing is that I really don't like Intuit.  They have screwed up a lot of things with us for the past 3 years of having QB through them.  (I think it's just Intuit that runs QB, right?)  For instance, our executive director left 2 years ago, and despite many attempts to remove her from the ...

Wow, that's a great link, Holten, thank you!!  You always have awesome resources and thank you for sharing them.  :)I will send that one home and me and my h can look them over together.

I think I hate QB mainly because I never had any formal training but just had to sit down and figure it out.  And then our board asks for extensive reports and of course if you don't have things in the right place (because you don't know where to put them), it's hard to get those reports!  We have moved on since then and I did take a ...

Does anyone here use ''Quicken'' to plot their household expenses/budget?  I looked online yesterday and saw there was a free (free in the short term!) download but I don't want to mess with it unless it actually does help.  Currently, I use Excel spreadsheets which work okay, but could be better.  At work I use QuickBooks for ...

Wow.  I'm wondering whether I wrote your opening post myself.I have also been married almost 10 years and our sex life has been a battlefield for most of that time.  That said, prior to marriage, my h was enthusiastic, so it was an actual ''loss'' of something rather than ''never there.''  I have also had the same frustration on the ...

chaz345: JaneFW:Chaz, what kind of *drastic* measures do you mean?  Finding ways to reduce or eliminate time that they are alone together. Hmmmm .. like chaperoning them when he takes her home, to the mall, or to the movies?  Those are their only *completely* alone times.  The rest of the time we are in our home with them, or they ...

Very appropriate BHL and timely.  We are all open to the weeds - and we all have to fight them off.