WAW Using God

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Wife, I have decided that you will honor your agreement that the kids will remain in their home. Your decision to use them in this way (promised sleepover, last minute announcement) is incredibly disrespectful to me and to them and I will not brook it.
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"Brook"??
One can't "decide" what someone else will do or won't do. Boundary-laying is about deciding what YOU will (or will not) abide.
"Wife, I will not tolerate the children being used in this way. When you don't live up to what you agreed to do, and make me look like the bad guy for them not having their sleepover, you're harming them, and their relationship with me, and I know that's not what you want. We both only want what's best for them, and we need to get better at this. If you continue to do that, I will do what I need to do to protect them."
Puppy

brook = abide
put up with something or somebody unpleasant

I like yours better 8am vs Midnight. That's why you play in the majors.

I feel drawn to this sitch. Mom is deeply religious. Stepfather 2,3 was too. (She married him twice.) Seen God and the Church used to support so many evil things.

Stepfather 5 was a deeply religious man who mixed numerology with Christianity and understood little except the female mind. In the movie of my mom's life he will be played by a glowing ball of evil.

Anyway, this is all to say that while I don't claim to have seen it all, I've seen enough to see the modern Protestant church used as a blunt weapon in many forms. (often against the institution of marriage) I'm also not saying that faith and pastoral care haven't helped many many people. Just that the perversion of the church is particularly harmful.

Wow, I talk to much. Listen to Puppy.
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