(April 26, 2011 at 10:18 am)IDKWTB Wrote: It really hit me the other day when my wife and I got in our car after church and she started to cry. She asked me "Why don't you pray with me?"That's marriage for you - a ball and chain. ^^ Your wife resorting to using emotional blackmail to get you to do what she wants is natural.
I took her hand, gritted my teeth, and said a prayer.
I'm not sure who was on the other end of that prayer, but she felt better afterward.
That was last week, and since then I've been having severe anxiety about my future with my wife. I don't know what to do. I'm afraid if I tell her that I have no faith, then my marriage is doomed. I'm not sure what I believe anymore.
Just tell her prayer is supposed to be personal, and you need to pray elsewhere, alone and privately, otherwise God will strike you down for being a hypocrite. If she doesn't believe you just quote Matthew 6: 6 and Matthew 23:14, that'll get her off your back for while.
