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- Subject: Re: help! worried about friends...
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 06:52:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.035809.29078@samba.oit.unc.edu> Catherine.Collingwood@launchpad.unc.edu (Catherine Collingwood) writes:
- >From: Catherine.Collingwood@launchpad.unc.edu (Catherine Collingwood)
- >Subject: help! worried about friends...
- >Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:58:09 GMT
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- >Help!
- >Two friends of mine (ages 17 and 19) are engaged, which in itself is not
- >necessarily a bad thing, but...
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- >It has recently come to my attention that, even though the marriage is
- >mere months away, neither of them have thought to start talking about
- >such minutae (sp?) as financial plans, where they're going to live,
- >how they're going to tell their parents (which bothers me on another
- >plane too), etc..
- >And they keep asking me for advice on how to make a relationship work!
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- >I've tried several times to suggest to my friends -- both of whom are
- >college students -- that they get a third party involved to advise
- >them in setting up a successful marriage. I'm not talking about a
- >prenuptal agreement, I'm talking about talking out plans for a life
- >together. However, the next question is, of course, who?
- >My answer? A priest. I'm far from religious myself, being an EXTREMELY
- >lapsed Catholic, but I grew up that way and I know that this kind of
- >advising is part of a preist's training. I myself am engaged, and
- >it has been suggested to me to go on a retreat that the Church
- >periodically holds to work on this same stuff. My parents' fairly
- >successful 18-year marriage owed a good part of its success to a
- >retreat such as this.
- >The problem? My friends are notoriously anti-religion. I can't
- >convince them that the priest isn't going to tell them how to live
- >their life, but merely help them figure out what -they- want to do.
- >But the minute my friends hear me say the word "priest" they don't
- >hear anything else.
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- >So do any of you know of anyone else I can suggest that is fairly
- >inexpensive? They also told me that a marriage counselor is too
- >expensive (something I can understand) and there's nothing wrong
- >with their relationship either. In short, my friends want advice,
- >but refuse to believe me in that certain types of counsellors won't
- >be biased.
- >I really want my friends to work out, and I think that if they don't
- >get bogged down in the little things, they will. But what kind of
- >a marriage is it where they start out without even a house to live in
- >or a way to pay for it?
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- >Thanks so much
- >Lady Firebird
- >aka Catherine
- >--
- > The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
- > North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
- > Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
- > internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
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- be glad these two are going to marry each other. by not marrying two other
- people, they'll only make two people miserable, not four.
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