I accept ALL people of ALL faiths and religions in this world unconditionally. Although I differ with some aspects of some of these religions, I understand where all of them come from and I completely accept all of them.

As for me, I consider myself a student of all things spiritual.

Now, I have a co-worker who’s a born-again Christian. She is a lovely, wonderful woman. But she continually misunderstands me and my beliefs. Often she tries to explain the Bible to me. I just listen intently, without offering my true feelings about the book. I choose to keep whatever my feelings are to myself, as to respect her faith and beliefs.

I do not think she is ready to know and to grasp what I learned throughout my spiritual studies. Actually, I think she is SCARED to death of knowing what I know. She completely denies the little I’ve told her as being false. That is completely okay with me. I am not here to save her or anyone else. And I’m definitely not here to impose my beliefs on anyone else either.

Anyway, yesterday I sent some of my co-workers a BEAUTIFUL poem by Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran, from his book entitled THE PROPHET.

Now, the poem talks about a true marriage and how two people can achieve happiness in marriage.

In any case, it was a POEM! It had nothing to do with religion or anything like that. And, might I add, it was a gorgeous, wonderful piece of literature too.

She wrote me back only: "A prophet? What kind of prophet?"

Now… tell me if I’m wrong in assuming that she didn’t even READ the poem! It looks to me like she got stuck on the word "prophet" and completely missed the whole point of the poem (how to have a happy and healthy marriage).

Thanks for reading this, folks. It’s just that… I’m having a little hard time deciding whether or not to share anything else with this woman. I do like her but… her mind seems to be closed shut at this time…

What do you all think?

Thanks.

Love and blessings to all.
Priรciℓℓα ☼… yeah! That’s a great idea!
Deep Thought, I’m seriously considering that. If she doesn’t even read what I send her and completely pre-judges everything… what’s the point of trying to share anything with her…
crystal, I’ve been thinking the same thing. However, she cannot help herself and trying to "Christianize" every one of us. She gives me things to read too. I read them. It doesn’t bother me. I think Jesus Christ was one of the brightest lights to ever be born on this planet. And I love his teachings!
Sara, what you wrote is just GORGEOUS! And so true. Thank you so much for that!!!!
Ginchi, I disagree with you about Gibran. And… I don’t think of myself as better or worse than her. I just think all I know is so completely foreign to her that it would probably take her sometime to assimilate everything. How do I know this? Because it took me years to get to where I am. And I LOOKED and SEARCHED. *smiles*

Thanks for your answer, though. A little crabby, but I’ll take it anyway.
You also make a good point, "Follow Jesus." Maybe I should have explained the whole thing to her…

But I thought it best to just let the whole thing alone for a while, while I thought about the best way to deal with it. I don’t want to hurt her feelings in any way, shape of form.
Thanks for a lovely and inspiring reply, Sherry.

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My wife of 4 years, 1 child together, both about 30, has been having an affair…At least twice per month, my wife has says she is going to happy hour with co-workers. However, today, I found on her Face book account that she isn’t going with co-workers, but just ONE male co-worker. Sometimes she will come home at 4AM, other times she calls and says she’s staying with her female co-worker since they’ve all been drinking too much.

If I divorce my wife, my wife will most likely get most of the custody of our child- adultery is not grounds for divorce.

To be honest, I’d rather forgive and act like I don’t even know about it in order to save my marriage. Basically, in her email box, they sneak around. He’s married with 2 children and has made it clear that he isn’t leaving his wife. My wife sent one email back, very flirtatiously written, saying she doesn’t want him, just his sex, and he KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING (typed something like that in caps.
I looked up the divorce laws in my state in the midwest and adultery is not grounds for CHILD CUSTODY- it is for divorce, however.

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We were introduce by my co-worker. It was her Aunt. An we got each other numbers. We haven’t seen each other an we just text for like a month. We got to know each other first. She lived one hour away which didint matter. I told her to be my girlfriend ever since for about 2 month i sweep her off her feet. Then we went back to school and work. We really didnt have time for each other anymore. We just told each other dat were to busy. Now we hardly talk. What do i do? How can i get back an make things like we first met?

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My ex dumped me 9 month ago, left me after 61/2 years for his 28 year old co-worker (she dumped her girlfriend to be with him) he is 43 I am 48. They both cable guys for knology. I am an RN.
Long story short, 4 weeks ago he told me i was the best, even better than his ex wife. He misses my cooking and he wished we had children. I wonder where all this BS came from !
I just wonder how long people appart and suddenly they thinking of going back with their ex! Once I heard this lady tell me that after 5 years her ex husband wanted to come back, however, she had finnally moved on after 5 long years.
What is your opinion or experience on this????
I am still single, haven’t dated since he dumped me but hoping it will get better in forgetting him at all.
Help

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I was a jealous boyfriend. Now, I am a jealous husband. My wife had breast cancer, with both breasts removed. This happened several years ago and after the mastectomies, she refused for years to have breast implants. There is a new man working in her department that is divorced. His ex-wife had breast implants done by this cosmetic surgeon. Now my wife has made an appointment with this same doctor. She says she wants to make herself more attractive for me, but my jealous suspicions seem to be that she wants to impress her coworker. They started eating lunch together as part of a group from the office. With summer vacations and people out of the office, I have found out through my wife that these two are having lunch exclusively every day, either in the office cafe or other lunch places outside the office.
A college buddy of mine, who’s wife did leave him for another man, told me that once his wife started going to lunch outside the office with guys, guys would take her to other places in their cars besides restaurants during lunchtime. I was told it was a bad sign and to watch out.
In the past, I have broken up with girlfriends that I suspected were interested in other men and I felt they were cheating on me although I had no concrete proof. Other women have broken up with me saying that I was too controlling.
My wife only has a half hour for her lunch and her co worker has an hour. She has told me that other people were fired because they were repeatedly late coming back from lunch. I told her I don’t think it’s a good idea for her to go off with this guy for lunch because if she’s late too often she could get fired.
At the place where my wife works they have a strict policy on alcohol use and being under the influence of alcohol in the work place. Two co workers at her office were fired when a manager noticed they were acting strangely after lunch, had two police man called to the work place, administered a breathalyzer and they were both fired. Last week, my wife does not drink, and when we were at a restaurant for dinner, she noticed a wine on the list and said that she tried some of that at lunch earlier that day. Her friend was having a glass of wine and recommended that she try it because it tasted like fruity grape juice.
"So, you had a glass of wine during your lunch break from work?"
Yeah, it was just one glass.
"Do you remember what happened to Susie and Jim when the drank at lunchtime?"
Sure. But they were really being stupid about it. I only had one glass. Can’t get drunk from just one old little glass of wine.
"Do you really want to take that chance? You shouldn’t be drinking during the day. I thought you didn’t drink."
"I don’t. But that wine Kenny had me try didn’t taste like wine at all."
It wouldn’t surprise me if Kenny didn’t slip a roofie in my wife’s drink from the way she was acting that night.
To make things more complex, I was laid off from my employer two years ago and I am working my own business in addition to working a second job in sales, so I am covered under my wife’s health insurance policy.
When I question my wife about this co worker, my wife gets angry and threatens to leave me saying "good luck paying for your own health insurance. Individual plans cost a fortune."
I have been uneasy with any man that my wife enjoys his company. When I was a kid, most wives stayed at home with children and the men worked. Today, many wives are working, and with the recession on, many husbands are not working or are working their own businesses because most companies are simply not hiring anymore.
Does your wife have lunch and socialize with other men at work? Does your wife have other male friends? How do you deal with this as a husband? (The same questions also apply to boyfriends with girlfriends).
My wife says that she and her co worker friend are just "Platonic" and there is nothing sexual or romantic in their friendship. Personally, I think the whole notion of a Platonic relationship between a man and a woman is a load of bull.
Women can answer also although I am primarily looking for men’s opinions on this matter.

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sleep with her sister, or friends just to upset her?

Ladies, same question but turned around. To get back at being wronged by your ex boyfriend, would you sleep with his brother, or friends just to upset him?
LOL, no this is not about me, LOL. I see these questions pop up around the net and most recently I saw a commercial where a lady dumped her boyfriend for a co-worker and he said he would get back at her by sleeping with her mom, I thought that was hilarious!

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i have been married for 7 years and with my husband for 15 years. we have 4 children. He decided 2 weeks ago that he doesn’t love me like that anymore. He has kissed and talked to a co worker who is also married with 3 kids. We are living apart right now and he says that he has not been seeing her. He told me we could try counseling even though he feels like we are done. how can love just slip away i think it is her i have been told by several people that she is very manipulative. I want my marriage to work i love him with all my heart i still get butterflies when i see him. I want to workk on our marriage but i just don’t know if he can ever love me again like i love him.
we have only ever been with eachother since we were 14 and 15 i love him with every part of my soul. i don’t want to give up without a fight

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We have a 2 yr old kid, 16 yrs of marriage. Husb wanted a baby too, he refused any intimate relations with me after conceiving (breasfed 1 yr). He helped me in the house, shopping, is polite, had a job, but
we had no physical contact at all. He kind of loves the kid but
in a very old-style way; cold, doesnot read books to her or
take her to the park.
He asked me not to force or ask for bed time with him. He would help with the kid when ASKED,he said he was 10% an active father. I am full-time working mum, and toddler in childcare 5 h /day when not sick, and I spent mostly of time alone with kid, bcz husb not showing any interest. Now, he had interest in a co-worker, no Xmas presents for us, emotionally is detached from us, he told me about having prostitutes and wanting to leave me before having baby , to find his freedom, does not want me, will send me money for kid. Affair is over, he is depressed, no job,
he does not want to talk, to leave, to save marriage. What can I do?

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