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August 29, 2007

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Today’s Stories

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Domestic Violence - 7 Characteristics of an Abuser

Jan Verhoeff

Are you being victimized by an abuser? Learn the characteristics of an abuser and escape before the abuse starts.

1. Ridicules, Criticizes, and Condemns

Does your partner ridicule, criticize, and condemn you? Those who put others down to feel better about themselves often resort to other bad behavior to feel better about themselves too. Donʼt allow anyone to condemn you, ridicule your choices, or criticize who you choose to be. Walk away.

2. Anger Management Difficulties

Does your partner have a short fuse? Does your partner anger easily? Those who anger easily, unable to reason through issues and difficulties often resort to abuse to get what they want. If he kicks the door down, how long will it be until heʼs kicking you?

3. Self-Centered Attitude

Everything in his life is more important than you. He makes sure you know that you really donʼt count for much, he isnʼt really interested in you, doesnʼt even like you very much, but he tolerates you in his life? For what? He chooses anything else over you, and makes certain you know he doesnʼt value you.

4. Demanding and Possessive

Your partner doesnʼt like your friends and family, and makes every effort to condemn them every chance he gets. He ridicules your family and friends, condemning and criticizing them, using derogatory terms to describe them and you. Heʼs disrespectful of your time and interests.

5. Controlling

Your partner must know where you are and have access to you at all times, often following you to work, calling you at work and accusing you of having an affair, flirting, or doing things behind his back. He wants to know everything you do, while keeping secrets about his own activities.

6. Immature and Childish

No matter what you do, he doesnʼt believe you really love him unless you buy him the toys he wants, keep him satisfied, and makes you think itʼs your fault his life isnʼt perfect. He blames you and lives by a double standard, expecting you to keep ʽrulesʼ that he doesnʼt follow himself.

7. Irresponsible

Your partner isnʼt responsible, uses you, doesnʼt take responsibility for himself. He isnʼt dependable, may not have a job or keep a job, and nothing is ever his fault. He blames everyone else for his failures. He often blames you for his own emotional reactions and bad behaviors.

Are you in an Abusive Relationship?

You do have choices. Learn how you can escape from an abusive relationship, and live the life you want to live at http://mindcontrol.cn

© 2007 - mindcontrol.cn

Jan Verhoeff

 janverhoeff@yahoo.com

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Housewife
Bill Walker
missourisage@yahoo.com


OK dumb old Bill here again. Another thing that troubles me is the word housewife. For the life of me, I can't quite understand the meaning of the blasted word. House to me is a place one might call a place to eat, sleep and have a roof over head, something on that
order. Is a housewife in this case married to the blasted thing?

I wonder if there is a house husband? Does the so called husband have a boatwife? A huntingwife, a cookwife, a fishingwife, a bedwife, a TVwife, a campwife and a whatever else wife? 

You Dollies might better check in on this thing, might be more hankie pankie going on then you know about.

Stay tuned, old dumb Bill has more crazy words to come up with.
Bill
Tinker and Poo; The Boys Write
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-35741-5

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SIMPLE NOT EASY

By: Joseph J. Mazzella

     Shortly after our first home burned down when I was a boy we moved into a small house near the top of a mountain. The entire house was heated by a single, wood stove. My dad, brothers, and I spent days every Spring and Summer cutting and stacking the wood for it. It worked great as long as the wood wasn’t wet. A lot of the time, however, this wasn’t the case. Snowy and rainy days meant wet wood, a weak fire, and a cool house. It wasn’t long then before my Dad decided that we needed to build a wood shed.

     I can still remember the day we started it. Dad had me and my brother climb into the pick-up truck after school. A local railroad company had pulled up some unused track and was giving away the wooden ties that went with it. Dad wanted to use 4 of these ties as the corner posts for the new building. It seemed simple enough at the time. All we had to do was load them up, take them home, dig some holes, and set them in the ground. What I didn’t realize was that each railroad tie weighed almost 500 pounds. I never worked so hard or strained so much in my life. I went to bed that night exhausted and had sore muscles for a week afterward. Yes, it was a simple job, but it surely wasn’t an easy one.

     Living in love, joy, and oneness with God is simple too, but sometimes it isn’t easy. It is a choice that we have to make every single day of our lives. We often have to give love in the face of hate and share joy in the face of despair. Easy or not, though, it is still worth the effort.  Loving God, loving ourselves, and loving others is what we were meant for. Nothing is better for us or feels better to us. When we work for love, we work for God, and when we work for God we will always have joy. Work hard at the simple life of love then. Even if you do run into some heavy lifting at times God will always be at the other end ready to help you.

Joe Mazzella

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Poetry Corner

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 A Mother’s Sorrow

By Nell Berry         6/20/06

My son, my son, how can this be?

Why, dear God was he taken from me?

My heart is breaking, I can’t understand.

Where were You Lord, where was Your hand?

I prayed for the safety for my dear child.

I asked that You cover him in that country so wild.

I feared for his life, but You promised me

Your hand of protection, though I could not see.

Now he is gone, so cruelly taken,

my life is so barren, so violently shaken.

Where is the solace, the comfort and peace?

When from this sorrow will I get relief?

Please dear God, help me understand,

why did you not keep him in the palm of Your hand?

My child, my child, I was there,

but your son did not call out to me in prayer.

His voice was silent, from Me he turned.

I would have saved him but my way he spurned.

Had he called to me in the name of the Lord,

My compassion and mercy on him I’d have poured.

My children teach your child while you can,

tell them to turn to Me, obey my commands.

Teach them the way in which they should go,

when they grow up, my way they will know.

Then when they call on my name in prayer,

I will never leave them, I’ll always be there.

I’ll never forsake them, I cannot lie.

Their eternity in Heaven with me in the sky

will be theirs to have in the end,

 I will always be there to be their friend.

They will never have to wonder where they will go,

My way they will follow, my way they will know.

Nell Berry

nellberry07@comcast.net

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