Saving and Emotionally Empty Marriage
Dear Chris, Well, words will not express what your ministry has done for my husband and me. Basically I have had 28 ??? years of hell and rejection. All I can say about the past is that it was extremely painful and lonely. I fell asleep very shortly after we were married because I could not handle my husbands lack of emotional response to me both as a wife and friend. Instead, I felt that I was wet-nursing someone who was hanging onto a “snoopy blanket” (the marriage) to protect him from the world. He never gave of himself in any way. I was a separate operating unit.
As mentioned, I had announced to my husband three weeks before the conference that I was divorcing him. The thought of staying in an emotionally empty marriage for another 29 years was not what I had in mind for my life. While we had major emotional breakthroughs last November, my husband had failed to follow through. When I announced my intentions to divorce, it sent a major message to him about maturity. Your seminar on communication, understanding the needs of your spouse, and the blessing, really woke my husband up. You helped to break the final strongholds that we had and your seminar was a logical next step from November and to a whole marriage.
Things I Really Like About the Conference
1. World and world powers as shown on your page 10. “Come, see, conquer” versus the Biblcal worldview of “Clothing” as found in “come, call, clothe,” VERY VERY powerful. Chris this is really where it is at. Women, given man’s inner feelings, don’t know how they unclothe a man. We thought they were able to take all they dish out or don’t dish out, but they can’t. The knight can take anything, but in real life they run. Run to things they feel they can succeed in, tournaments, hunting, sports, work, other women.
2. Chris, I had forgotten the role of God in the course of a woman’s position. This really needs to be hit hard. God, husband, then wife. If the husband is NOT what he should be, the woman should be going to God, just as a single woman who does not have a husband. It is God who will take us in His arms and fill us with kisses when we don’t have anyone to do that. I am just beginning to recognize how God was kissing me all the lonely years.
3. P 18 Vulnerable Woman shuts down so as not to be vulnerable to other men and also to her husband. This is a defense mechanism out of desperation. I used it. Believe me. This concept and how to overcome it is Powerful: God takes weak men and uses them to reflect Him. We want all men to reflect Jesus. Teach men how to be broken and contrite and yet courageous in Christ Jesus. 4. Touch points between God’s Spirit and us while on the earth Word of God Rhema; Communion between one another; Forgiveness and then lovemaking God’s intimate worship. Powerful, This puts all of life into perspective. 5. Courageous Conversations someone has to die reflects Jesus. Kills pride. 6. Page 44 Treat a man as he is and he will remain – treat a man as he can adn should be and he will BECOME WHAT HE SHOULD AND CAN BE.” – Powerful 7. The Blessing Jeremiah 15:19 We are busy cursing each other when we should be blessing each other. 8. 80% of the woman’s day is spent on repressing negative EMOTIONS unless a husband can help her resolve her most pressing issues. Great.
