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7/3/2015 1:42:24 PM | Hello ladies! Let me start off by saying thank you for responding to my post. Deborah, you are always so sweet and kind! I am amazed at what the Lord can create in a person's life when we turn it all over to him. You and I have spoke many times about our need to feel like we can control a situation or fix something we see needs fixing. I believe this is our gift from God to serve others and do it well. It can also be a burden when we think we can do it alone. I admire you so much because I think you have already surrendered and understand that we must work together with God see any lasting results. I'm still in the process of learning to let go on all levels. Boy am I thankful for his grace and mercy that I am only human after all. Haha! You have been a true mentor for me. Your advice and guidance has always been rock solid. Thank you for being a part of this journey with us. I know the Lord will continue to bless you and your family! Love you! Lara, thank you for your well wishes. I'm so glad my post had meaning for you and your partner. We live in a world where we are constantly told the things we need and how we should do them according to everyone else. It's a very difficult and brave thing to not conform to the ways of the world. However you two decide to get married, I wish you a beautiful and healthy life together! Mary, I'm doing good! Thank you so much for your kind words. I hope you are seeing great results with the protocol. I'm not sure how far along you are in it. I tried to convey my experience through my post and let others make up their mind as to what they feel comfortable with. I felt it a good topic to bring up since it had never really talked about on the forum. We are all so different, it seems even symptoms vary from person to person. You are so right about what the world tells us! I think there are many ways to express love and be intimate without sex. For us only being together about 5 years and the fact that we are still pretty young, my husband is actually almost 5 years younger than I am, brought up some real issues and struggle with physical intimacy or lack thereof. The Hebrew word echad in the bible means when two become one. I believe the Lord intended for us to be sexually intimate with our husbands and wives. I believe it is most definitely good for mind and body and a natural and healthy part of a marriage. With that said this disease or syndrome or whatever M is takes a lot of normal everyday things away from us. Like I said, I had a huge fear of even touching my children even though they had symptoms. I was equally fearful of touching my husband and terrified of being intimate with him. Only as I started to really feel healthy from M did I feel comfortable doing these things again. He also knew the risk of getting sick again and was willing to take that risk. I also freely love on my children and others and started doing so around a year in on the protocol. I come from an extremely affectionate Italian family, so not feeling like I could do these things was one of the most disheartening parts for me. thankfully I've never gave this to anyone over the last couple of years. My children haven't spread it to any of their friends and my husband hasn't spread it to any of his coworkers. Yet, all 5 of us have shown symptoms at one point or another. I think we must have been exposed to it at the same time and I don't think it was from a human. I think it has a lot to do with overall health and immunity. Everyone has to make these very tough decisions based on what they feel is best for them. Taking any and all things into consideration and be willing to deal with whatever the outcome may be. All I can say is once you start to feel really good again I'm sure you will want to resume more of the things that were once normal for you. With each day some of the troubling symptoms just become a memory until the whole thing just becomes a memory, just another hurdle of life. I hope and pray that you are seeing results and you too can regain the parts of your life that you've lost to this disease. Many blessings for you and your hubby, Mary. Love and blessings to you ladies!! |
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