Hi everyone, I have no idea if I'm posting this in the right place, so I apologise if I am not.
Anyway, I feel like my wife has very little respect for me sometimes (alot of the time), and she seems to be hostile towards me far more than I'd consider normal or healthy. Things are getting worse and more frequent.
What can I do or what approach can I take to change this?
I have no Christian friends (I only have 2 real friends anyway, 1 in Canada, 1 in USA) and I won't seek the counsel of my family on this out of respect to my wife, so I ask here in the hope that some Christian brothers and sisters can give me some guidance and advice.
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Background:
Right now we aren't together together, she's in Asia, I'm in the uk. We're working on getting her visa sorted to bring her here. So this is occurring over messages and calls.
She is a born again Christian, reads the bible daily, does devotions, worships God very often etc. Shes 30.
Aside from the issues I describe, she is genuinely loving, caring, honest, sweet, loyal, and truly loves the Lord, and me.
She has herself told me that sometimes when she's fighting with me she feels like she isn't her anymore and she feels no love for me and only wants to hurt me, she's said that she knows there is another side of her that she's fighting against. That doesn't mean to say this is every instant, just usually the worst fights.
(my only interpretation to that would be the sinful nature or some mental illness like bipola, she's thrown the idea of a demon being in her but I highly doubt that)
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Issues:
She fights over misunderstanding what I've said, takes things I've said waaay out of context and rejects my explanation of the actual context.
Jealousy is a cause of conflict often, which also leads to false accusations against my character.
If my word is my only defence, I'm pretty much screwed. Even when I provide unequivocal evidence of my innocence, I'm still guilty (until she apologies)
Accuses me of things which are completely untrue (in many cases she knows it's not true)
Starts fights out of absolutely nowhere that seem to be triggered by nothing. One just happened just before I wrote this, I guess that gave me the idea to seek a better approach to her attitude.
She will apologise most of the time and say she's trying to change etc. But she's not changing, she's getting worse. It was never like this when we were boyfriend and girlfriend years ago. These days it's just a new every week, sometime multiple in a week.
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Approaches I've taken:
- emotional approach works sometimes cos she doesn't like seeing me sad.
- ignoring her til she grows up (sometimes worked, sometimes made it worse - 'accusations that I don't care etc') - I no longer do this cos I don't feel OK doing it, I just want to fix the issue.
- calm approach, ignoring all her insults to me and just explaining in a calm way that what she says makes no sense and is untrue.
- godly approach, trying to encourage her to be more respectful and that we should follow the example of Jesus Christ and the apostles and show the fruits of the spirit even when it's hard and reminding her of our wedding and happy memories etc, whilst calmly explaining away her baseless accusations, judgements and insults.
- patience and prayer are applied, but my patience doesn't do anything, nothing changes, it just carries on or gets worse.
- right now, my patience is breaking and I tend to just point out the facts, and acknowledging her statements as ridiculous, I remain calm at first, but after insult and her judgements I guess I lose my cool, earlier I said "All you ever ever do anymore is fight fight fight. And then you call yourself a peacemaker? Don't call yourself that again", and I know that was probably wrong to say it like that, but she just wouldn't stop atall, not that it excuses it.
Thankyou and God bless you.
Anyway, I feel like my wife has very little respect for me sometimes (alot of the time), and she seems to be hostile towards me far more than I'd consider normal or healthy. Things are getting worse and more frequent.
What can I do or what approach can I take to change this?
I have no Christian friends (I only have 2 real friends anyway, 1 in Canada, 1 in USA) and I won't seek the counsel of my family on this out of respect to my wife, so I ask here in the hope that some Christian brothers and sisters can give me some guidance and advice.
______________________
Background:
Right now we aren't together together, she's in Asia, I'm in the uk. We're working on getting her visa sorted to bring her here. So this is occurring over messages and calls.
She is a born again Christian, reads the bible daily, does devotions, worships God very often etc. Shes 30.
Aside from the issues I describe, she is genuinely loving, caring, honest, sweet, loyal, and truly loves the Lord, and me.
She has herself told me that sometimes when she's fighting with me she feels like she isn't her anymore and she feels no love for me and only wants to hurt me, she's said that she knows there is another side of her that she's fighting against. That doesn't mean to say this is every instant, just usually the worst fights.
(my only interpretation to that would be the sinful nature or some mental illness like bipola, she's thrown the idea of a demon being in her but I highly doubt that)
___________________
Issues:
She fights over misunderstanding what I've said, takes things I've said waaay out of context and rejects my explanation of the actual context.
Jealousy is a cause of conflict often, which also leads to false accusations against my character.
If my word is my only defence, I'm pretty much screwed. Even when I provide unequivocal evidence of my innocence, I'm still guilty (until she apologies)
Accuses me of things which are completely untrue (in many cases she knows it's not true)
Starts fights out of absolutely nowhere that seem to be triggered by nothing. One just happened just before I wrote this, I guess that gave me the idea to seek a better approach to her attitude.
She will apologise most of the time and say she's trying to change etc. But she's not changing, she's getting worse. It was never like this when we were boyfriend and girlfriend years ago. These days it's just a new every week, sometime multiple in a week.
____________________
Approaches I've taken:
- emotional approach works sometimes cos she doesn't like seeing me sad.
- ignoring her til she grows up (sometimes worked, sometimes made it worse - 'accusations that I don't care etc') - I no longer do this cos I don't feel OK doing it, I just want to fix the issue.
- calm approach, ignoring all her insults to me and just explaining in a calm way that what she says makes no sense and is untrue.
- godly approach, trying to encourage her to be more respectful and that we should follow the example of Jesus Christ and the apostles and show the fruits of the spirit even when it's hard and reminding her of our wedding and happy memories etc, whilst calmly explaining away her baseless accusations, judgements and insults.
- patience and prayer are applied, but my patience doesn't do anything, nothing changes, it just carries on or gets worse.
- right now, my patience is breaking and I tend to just point out the facts, and acknowledging her statements as ridiculous, I remain calm at first, but after insult and her judgements I guess I lose my cool, earlier I said "All you ever ever do anymore is fight fight fight. And then you call yourself a peacemaker? Don't call yourself that again", and I know that was probably wrong to say it like that, but she just wouldn't stop atall, not that it excuses it.
Thankyou and God bless you.
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