Grief
I need to get away!!! I have been through too much over the last 2 1/2 years! I want to go to Florida, Hawaii and Venice, Italy! I want to have a 3 month vacation! Spend one month in each place! I need some fun time, laughs and lots of cash for spending!
Of course you will need to have some extra cash stashed some place! Please don't go into debt over me! I'm feeling guilty enough over stuff already! But if you got the extra dough!!! I'm ready to roll!!! My bags are packed!!! I want some sunshine!!! The sandy beaches and salt air!!!
We can have our marriage annulled once the 3 months are up! It's a perfect arrangement! Don't you think???
Hmmm... By the way... There is one catch! I really want to go alone! I want to go sightseeing by myself. You can come along if you must, as long as we stay in separate rooms and take separate tours. I just need your money. Not to use you or anything like that! Oh no!!! I would never do that!!! I would pay you back as soon as I won the lottery!!! I promise!!! I would!!! Really I would!!! Well... I think I would??? At least I'd hope I would...
I just need to get away and strangers won't just give you a vacation. So I figured... If you would marry me for 3 months. Then your money, would be my money and I wouldn't have to feel guilty, asking you for any!!! Because it would be mine too!!! Right???
Anyway... I'm ready for any takers! Just leave me your business card and I will check out your credentials and get back to you! I promise! Really... I will...
P.S. - Just in case some of you think that I am a couple of slices short of a sandwich. Well...in some ways I am. I was just kidding about the marriage. I needed to blow off some steam and get creative! Even though... I really wouldn't mind going on a vacation. I haven't been on one in a while.
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Disclaimer: I received an email from someone who was very unhappy about what I wrote. She has a happy marriage. But many folks don't and didn't. I am going to be posting my response to her. This week was the 14th anniversary of my mother's passing. I grieve so much...because I am uncertain of her destination? Many shared with her about Christ and I did too just 3 days prior to her passing. I have been tormented since then about her whereabouts.
So...forgive me if I offended anyone for this humor piece. I have gone through 2 1/2 years of unemployment. I have over 4000 job contacts and still nothing. I have never gone this long without work. My savings is gone and now the bank wants my home. I have suffered much rejection from friends because now I am not on their "social level" anymore. Sometimes you just have to find something to laugh about...to keep from crying. Which is all I've done over the past few years.
Anyways...here is the response I sent to this person.
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I appreciate your comments. But you have to understand that many Christians and non-Christians were not blessed with a happy marriage, as you were. You don't have to think it's funny...however many do.
I have seen horrible marriages in my family. Full of so much abuse! I watched my baby brother being beaten to death by my stepfather at 11 years old and was told that if I said anything, I would follow in his footsteps.
My mom suffered kicks, blows to the head and stomach while pregnant with other children.
I went hungry more times than I would like to count! Being made to cook dinner for my stepfather and then having being made to sit and watch him eat it, while I went hungry. Sometimes the pain is so unbearable, that if you don't find a reason to laugh...all you can do is cry!!!
You can't laugh...because God chose you as one of the few to enjoy a happy marriage. As for the rest of us...we have to endure the continued pain.
As I mentioned...you have the right to your comments. But next time...before you get mad or judge someone...place yourself in the writer's shoes and ask God if there is a reason the writer wrote the way she or he did? You may be surprised to hear what God tells you.
I've seen marriages last 40-50 years and then all of a sudden it ends in divorce! A total shock to all involved. God's grace and mercy is all that each of us have to rely on. Because at any moment things can change.
My honesty has helped a lot of folks to release a lot of hurt and pain. And they write and thank me for it.
You can't help someone unless you have been there first. That's why I can help these people and you can't. Because...as you said...you have a happy marriage. But remember...you are amongst the few, because many others don't.
Again... Thanks for your comments. They were honest ones and I appreciate them!
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