Jaybob,
I'm relatively new here also, but will still extend a Welcome. I am a fellow Georgian, well I've lived here for the last 8 years.
Telling my wife I was atheist was pretty traumatic. The horror and disappointment she expressed was tough to deal with. I wasn't expecting it since religion was never a discussion point. She prays every night, never goes to church and thinks the idea of the trinity is absurd. We had only been married two years at the time, but we're still going strong sixteen years after my confession.
At first she didn't accept my reasoning and proclaimed it was just a phase. Then she would say affectionately that I was going to hell; to which I replied 'maybe so, but when you get there you'll be surprised to find I'm in charge'...so it became almost fun.
I hope your experience in this matter eveolves as well as mine did. I did lose some friends, but took solace in the fact that we would not have been friends to begin with if I were honest about it up front; their problem not mine, but unfortunate at a certain level.
Jim
I'm relatively new here also, but will still extend a Welcome. I am a fellow Georgian, well I've lived here for the last 8 years.
Telling my wife I was atheist was pretty traumatic. The horror and disappointment she expressed was tough to deal with. I wasn't expecting it since religion was never a discussion point. She prays every night, never goes to church and thinks the idea of the trinity is absurd. We had only been married two years at the time, but we're still going strong sixteen years after my confession.
At first she didn't accept my reasoning and proclaimed it was just a phase. Then she would say affectionately that I was going to hell; to which I replied 'maybe so, but when you get there you'll be surprised to find I'm in charge'...so it became almost fun.
I hope your experience in this matter eveolves as well as mine did. I did lose some friends, but took solace in the fact that we would not have been friends to begin with if I were honest about it up front; their problem not mine, but unfortunate at a certain level.
Jim
