I'd appreciate any prayers.
I've hit a dent in the road, which is causing me some grief right now.
I cannot have a family with my spouse while he remains in his false religion because I refuse to raise our children in that religion and in a house of such spiritual warfare/unequally yoked marriage. His religious family are very controlling and have been the ones to encourage him to keep going with his religion. His parents were always so kind towards me but when I came back to God last year (after backsliding) and was open with them about my faith, they have since persecuted me a few times.
After some issues in our marriage I saw God working recently and noticed small changes in my husband but as the scripture says, Satan often comes along and destroys that seed before it has time to grow. His family are controlling. Things go well in our marriage, then they swoop in and mess everything up. This has happened again recently and he is more adamant than ever to remain in his religion and is even giving "spiritual" advice to friends who I cannot witness to as a result of his wrong advice and their accepting of it... because our beliefs contradict. When we have others over for dinner I cannot do my work because he shares his heresies with them and the person just gets confused.
My husband is still adamant about remaining in his religion and asks me to accept it because he has made his decision and it seems final. Really don't know what to say. I worry for him because he has received so much knowledge of the truth and God says that punishment is worse for those that have the knowledge of it and reject it...also if they stumble others with these heresies it's not good.
I'm tired of waiting for God to work in this situation. Yes, I admit I have no patience and I just don't understand why I'm being left to live my life this way.
So I guess this means I will never have children. In the past when we were having issues his dad was encouraging him to leave me, saying that I would not be a great mother because I don't do things their way and his dad really believes that he has raised the perfect family in the perfect way, that they are perfect parents. I'm not south american like them. I also have different beliefs to them. During another difficult time in our marriage, when he told his parents he was wanting out, they were phoning constantly trying to get my husband to south america for a short vacation, when they should've let us be during our difficult time. They obsessively called to find out his decision on the vacation as they were eager to book him a flight and whisk him away.
Despite all they have done I've been very forgiving towards them but they abuse your kindness and take advantage of it.
Not looking forward to Christmas... the family will travel here and engage in their religious traditions, again pulling him into all that and destroying that seed that began to grow a bit in my husband... another way to stumble him and our marriage when things were starting to come along ok.
The family is very worldly and there is some hatred among some members towards each other for which they put on false smiles. For example, my husband's sister-in-law (when speaking negatively about his parents) was bold enough to say "they'll be dead soon" which stunned me... but yet she invited them here for Christmas this year.
It's always 2 steps forward and then many steps back when his family come into the scene again. Fed up with this yo-yo life.
I've hit a dent in the road, which is causing me some grief right now.
I cannot have a family with my spouse while he remains in his false religion because I refuse to raise our children in that religion and in a house of such spiritual warfare/unequally yoked marriage. His religious family are very controlling and have been the ones to encourage him to keep going with his religion. His parents were always so kind towards me but when I came back to God last year (after backsliding) and was open with them about my faith, they have since persecuted me a few times.
After some issues in our marriage I saw God working recently and noticed small changes in my husband but as the scripture says, Satan often comes along and destroys that seed before it has time to grow. His family are controlling. Things go well in our marriage, then they swoop in and mess everything up. This has happened again recently and he is more adamant than ever to remain in his religion and is even giving "spiritual" advice to friends who I cannot witness to as a result of his wrong advice and their accepting of it... because our beliefs contradict. When we have others over for dinner I cannot do my work because he shares his heresies with them and the person just gets confused.
My husband is still adamant about remaining in his religion and asks me to accept it because he has made his decision and it seems final. Really don't know what to say. I worry for him because he has received so much knowledge of the truth and God says that punishment is worse for those that have the knowledge of it and reject it...also if they stumble others with these heresies it's not good.
I'm tired of waiting for God to work in this situation. Yes, I admit I have no patience and I just don't understand why I'm being left to live my life this way.
So I guess this means I will never have children. In the past when we were having issues his dad was encouraging him to leave me, saying that I would not be a great mother because I don't do things their way and his dad really believes that he has raised the perfect family in the perfect way, that they are perfect parents. I'm not south american like them. I also have different beliefs to them. During another difficult time in our marriage, when he told his parents he was wanting out, they were phoning constantly trying to get my husband to south america for a short vacation, when they should've let us be during our difficult time. They obsessively called to find out his decision on the vacation as they were eager to book him a flight and whisk him away.
Despite all they have done I've been very forgiving towards them but they abuse your kindness and take advantage of it.
Not looking forward to Christmas... the family will travel here and engage in their religious traditions, again pulling him into all that and destroying that seed that began to grow a bit in my husband... another way to stumble him and our marriage when things were starting to come along ok.
The family is very worldly and there is some hatred among some members towards each other for which they put on false smiles. For example, my husband's sister-in-law (when speaking negatively about his parents) was bold enough to say "they'll be dead soon" which stunned me... but yet she invited them here for Christmas this year.
It's always 2 steps forward and then many steps back when his family come into the scene again. Fed up with this yo-yo life.
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