DisneyNut

Try something like Craigslist too. If you have IWanna papers in your area, that might be a good place to look as well.

Maybe I'm just easy to please but you care enough to ask others for advice on this, that to me a sign of great love.

When my brother has his chemo treatments, he just doesn't answer the phone if he doesn't feel like it. I'd say it's OK to call during normal times and you don't get an answer, just leave a message that you were thinking of him and he is free to call you at any time.

I'm sorry for your loss. Our kittens that died (their mommy got run over by a car when they were about 3 1/2 weeks old) did have muscle spasms as they were dying. Now if it was just prior to or just after, I'm not sure. I was holding all three of them when they passed though so I know that there was a tiny bit of movement in each of them.

Neb if you find one, let me know.

You don't come across as a know it all in the least. Thank you so much for this information. It's very helpful. He isn't on anti-depressants right now as he has no insurance (his company is working on that we hope though). I will check out some of their messages. I really appreciate all of these suggestions. Hopefully we can get him back on track quickly.

Talking with the minister I want to do anyway. Trying a bigger church might work. I had thought about trying the smaller services like Sunday or Wednesday night to see if that helped him too. And never thought about sitting in the back. We normally sit right in the front of the church for some reason. Thank you all for the great ideas. I appreciate all of them.

OK I need some help here. My fiance has battled some depression in the past. It appears that he is also having some Social Anxiety issues as well (the two tend to go hand in hand). My question is this. The anxiety brought on by the depression makes his ability to attend church uncomfortable and too easy to step away from completely. He doesn't enjoy crowds and while we are members of a small hometown church, the congregation is pretty hands on. They tend to crowd and hug on people which is fine when things are good with him. After much discussion we have figured out that this is the main reason he doesn't attend church as he should or even wants to. So my question is, what can we do about this aside from telling people to stay their distance? I've thought about Sunday night or Wednesday evening services and while those will help it won't solve the issue. I am going to call our minister and discuss this issue with him as well. I was hoping that maybe some of you had some ideas on how to make this as easy on my finace as possible. We are also doing Bible Study together each night but he needs to attend services and he needs to be comfortable enough to do so as well.

My son has to deal with this (not at my house but at his Dad's house). They call me every name under the sun including many that I don't repeat. I tell my son to not worry about that. I ask him if he feels that way about me to tell ME about and we will work on OUR relationship but not to worry about what his Dad and stepmom call me behind my back. I also tell him NOT to defend me to them because that just makes it worse for him. I make it a point to tell him that I am not bothered by how they feel about me and that the ONLY opinion that matters to me is how God feels about me and my actions. It's a horrible place to put a child in. It puts them in the middle of the arguements that generally have nothing to do with them. I don't have a good relationship with my ex husband. I wish I was able to have a decent conversation with him about our son but his new wife doesn't enable him to do that. She is NOT a nice person. All I can do is pray that God will touch their hearts so that they can see what they are doing to my son (he is 8).

Nebula I couldn't have said this better if I had tried. Thank you for posting this. I completely and 100% totally agree with the original statement. We are commanded to love everyone and that is going to be extremely hard to do if we can't forgive them for the hurtful things they have done to us. It's hard to love someone who has hurt you in any way but we are called to do just that.

Oh this story just breaks my heart. I can't even fathom that a 9 year old would consider something like this (and I have an 8 year old). That family will be in my prayers.

Thank you!!! We could all use this reminder. I might print it out for my son.

OK now this is going too far. I suppose I don't have celebrate it but still. I don't judge them for their behavior. It isn't my place or my right. They have a right to act as they wish. They are adults. I don't want to see it and I refuse to celebrate it. Just as I don't take my personal business outside for all to see, I expect the same respect from them.

This is not something that Disney promotes. It's something that the gay and lesbian community has come together to create on their own. Disney is doing the right thing but NOT promoting it but also not judging. That doesn't mean that they think it is right or approve of it though. And for what it's worth, this has been happening for years. It's not something new. It is however growing in popularity and that is where our prayers belong.

Marriage isn't taken seriously anymore. Its looked at as a right to live together in many homes and nothing more. It is difficult in the best of situations but throw in money concerns and children from previous marriages and so forth and people get scared. Divorce is looked upon as the "norm" these days and as sad as that is, it's the truth. Marriage has so many more obsticles now than ever before as well. I was married to a man for nearly 10 years and had no idea that he was addicted to pornography. It was just too easy for him to hide it from me. It is a sacred vow between two people but so many see it as just a piece of paper anymore.

Wow I REALLY needed to read this. Thank you all for your honest opinions. I recently got out of a relationship not because I didn't love him or that my child didn't love him dearly but because he didn't understand my need to protect my child (who is being verbally abused by his own father). He felt he should be first in my life after God and that would be fine except we have an ungodly presence in my son's life that has to be dealt with so by putting GOD first in our lives, it pushed him out.