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Posted by: southern ( )
Date: April 18, 2012 01:38PM

The BoM play thread touching on Southpark made me think of this - For those of you who are married to spouses who are waffling or don't really believe but also haven't totally renounced the church, do you do little things to encourage your spouse away?

Like, I support my hubs watching Southpark and I never miss an episode (well except the centipede one, I passed on that!) with him ever since I saw the BoM episode.

I have let him know clearly that I am totally cool with him watching porn and that there's no reason to hide it from me. We've even watched it together although our bedroom just turns into a snarky porn version of Mystery Science Theatre lol. We are too sarcastic and critical, can't give those poor actors a break.
I encourage him to drink responsibly and to know that there's no shame in it.
Hell, I even encourage him to pleasure himself, as it were, while we do stuff together bc I think it's hot and he used to carry a lot of guilt about doing that (still does I think)

I feel like it's my responsibility as wife to help him live his life with less unfounded guilt and religiously based anxiety. Not that it's all in my hands but I can help a little. So what do you guys do to help deprogram your spouse? Go for coffees on Sunday mornings?

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Posted by: dominikki ( )
Date: April 18, 2012 01:43PM

I pretty much do the same thing as you Southern. I also read post from here to him every now and then, not too much because he tends to get annoyed about it!

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Posted by: Mia ( )
Date: April 18, 2012 01:46PM

Taking off garmies was enough.

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Posted by: Tara the Pagan ( )
Date: April 18, 2012 04:13PM

I invited him to participate in one of my rituals. He told me afterwards that he had felt divine energy. It surprised him. I taught him how to ground and center and to do some basic energy work.

I articulated some of the questions I'd had about Native American DNA, the Book of Abraham, and other issues. I showed him some websites.

I quoted to him from "The Church and the Negro," and "The Miracle of Forgiveness," which I'd checked out of the local library. He was horrified.

We talked a lot. There were lots of Sunday afternoon trips to Barnes & Noble that involved coffee and seditious books -- the kind that invite critical thinking.

The rest, he figured out for himself.

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