"Walking out of the Valley" 2.0

[hoosjim]

Your description of your wife reminds me of my wife. She was raised in a very devout Catholic family (I was raised Presbyterian, although in the south, so the Southern Baptist influence was everywhere...Liberty University was right down the road). Anyway, my wife... The oldest child, devout Catholic upbringing, always expected to be the "good girl", and the good example to other siblings... Always, as she put it, alot of expectations on her. So, while her faith was always important to her, at the point she became wayward, she rebelled against that, as she did against me and the marriage and even, to a certain extent, her family. She stopped going to mass, except occasionally, stopped taking communion, was DEFINITELY resistant and resentful of religious or faith-based reasons that what she was doing was wrong. That was actually one of the big clues that I knew she had "turned" back... When she resumed going to mass, and to confession, and taking communion. so, even though she rebelled, and turrned away from it for a while, I firmly believe that it was her previous firm grounding in her faith that was one of the big reasons that she came around eventually, and as quickly as she did, if you can call 16+ months "quickly", lol.

Maybe yours will eventually come around in similar fashion. If you still want it,bi pray that it is so. Until such time, however, even if it does happen, you have little to no control over it. Need to focus on yourself, and working on you.

Hang in there, man, and keep up the good work in your GALs, etc