[HairOfTheDog]

Thanks Corin..... we have to sit and chew on this while we go to the dump.

My husband is now very tense and I feel for him... It's his parents, and his brother, that he doesn't want to confront or disappoint.

It's quite a pickle they've gotten us into. If I was a better person, I'd have been enthusiastic about going, and he'd probably have still hated it, but it'd have been easier than confronting this.

Question from the 'homework book' we're supposed to complete before going: "What three things produce the most stress in our marriage? What can we do to overcome them?"

But you have to tell them. If you don't, it WILL come up again.

Or, we can tell them, and it will still come up again :~D

Like wedding pictures :~D

[Overtaxed]

I guess it wouldn't do to tell them you've founded your own church, would it?

[RosieCotton]

I dunno who DOES like that kinda thing. Seriously. I'm kinda angry you've been put in this situation.

I mean...I'm a pretty "churchy" person, if you wanna put it that way. My Mom was much more so, and my Dad is too, to an extent. But I can't think of anything they'd have liked LESS than a retreat like the one described on that website. My Dad would have been absolutely embarrassed and miserable at anything like that. Not to mention retreats are something very personal...you pick them when and where *you* want, and with speakers *you* are interested in, IMO.

I don't know that there *is* a good way out at this point. If there ever was.

[Corin Stormhands]

Well, I hope I didn't make things more tense. But, the older I get the more I realize you gotta take care of these things when they start.

This is not about you being a better person. This is about them pushing their agenda on you. They have the best of intentions, but their methods are all wrong.

What three things produce the most stress in our marriage?

...Nana...Luke....Jr....oh wait, you weren't asking ~me~...

[Lil'freeper]

It's quite a pickle they've gotten us into.

Is this something they have all done and they want you to do it to so you can be in their little group of alums?