AFTER almost 15 years of marriage and three well brought up children, my wife has suddenly became born again.
She’s started going to a Pentecostal church. She wanted to take the children, but I put my foot down.
Before she found God, we never attended any church. But she’s now changed, almost overnight, into a person I don’t know and can no longer relate to.
Can we ever be the family we once were? She seems like a stranger to me now.
Harry, by e-mail.
Dear Harry,
Do you know what prompted your wife’s conversion?
People can turn to religion if they’ve been seriously ill; if someone close to them has died; if they’ve had some sort of trauma or decided to radically change their lifestyle.
In these circumstances, religion is a type of therapy and a passing phase that’s helpful at the time; seldom a true long-lasting belief.
Even if she were once perfectly happy and simply embraced religion, once she was exposed to it, it sounds very much like…
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