Mark,

Can't remember which one it was. I have an offer I'm not too crazy about, and I want to hear from another company soon.

I realized something about you, Mark, you are DB-ing very well. Your purpose is clear and your discipline unflagging.

I let myself get involved in a church discipline related situation with OM that boomeranged back on my marriage very negatively. Even though I didn't intitiate it, I was asked to verify that OM had affair with my wife. Some clregy/elder friends of mine felt OM could not continue on the track to ministry while still involved with my wife. They approached OM's church without asking me. Perhaps I could have stone-walled them and refused to answer their questions. At the time I didn't see the purpose in keeping it under wraps anymore.

OM called my wife and quasi broke it off with her (we'll see) and said that I blew the whistle on him and that the "church" made him do it.

My wife is now pissed. She feels I broke her confidence and that I dragged her name through the mud. She feels "clear" now that I am more loyal to church than to her.

She wants an immediate separation/divorce.

So if there's a lesson here: getting other people involved (even involuntarily) opens a can of worms. It's the nuclear option. Anything can happen.

--Theoden