Say someone gave you permission to use their email/computer to send an email and left the room. While there you see an interesting email and read it.
That email eludes to the person being involved in an extramarital affair. You read another that confirms it without a doubt.
The reader is the daughter.
Should she have read the emails?
Should she approach her mother?
What would you do?
Leave it the heck alone, and finally Brother Eastman and I agree...
The bible doesn't say, "And Dimples will find your sin out." Sin does that on its own.
I do agree with allowing the one parent be the one to tell the other, but in my mind there would be an ultimatum...I would expect them to do so in a reasonably timely manner. If this is not done and the affair is revealed later by some other means and the father finds out that his daughter was aware some time ago, it could ruin every relationship in the family.
I agree. The outcome could go several ways. The mother wants out of the marriage is glad it is out in the open or the mother straightens up and gives up the extramarital affair and the husband forgives her OR the husband can't forgive her and kicks her out.
Leave it the heck alone, and finally Brother Eastman and I agree...
The bible doesn't say, "And Dimples will find your sin out." Sin does that on its own.
Leave it the heck alone, and finally Brother Eastman and I agree...
The bible doesn't say, "And Dimples will find your sin out." Sin does that on its own.
RUN!
The bible does not say run away from it. It says go to the person so they can be recovered. Running is the easy thing to do.
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I agree. The outcome could go several ways. The mother wants out of the marriage is glad it is out in the open or the mother straightens up and gives up the extramarital affair and the husband forgives her OR the husband can't forgive her and kicks her out.
There will be some trust lost on all sides.
I agree and my point is that if one of those scenarios plays out in a way that it becomes known that the daughter was fully aware and didn't do anything, it could cause undue harm to her relationship with her father.
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Why did someone tell Dimples before they told their mother?
IMO, the right thing for the daughter to do is say: Mom, when I used your email the other day, I read a couple of your emails, and ran across these...can you please tell me what is going on?
In the meantime, said daughter, should NOT share the info with ANYone else, including Dimples or any other friends, family or foes. Nor should the daughter keep anyone updated on the outcome of any future conversations with her mother. This needs to go private and stay there. Period.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Speaking as a mother with a sharp mind...I would never let my daughter or any family member use my e-mail address if I had anything to hide. With that said, what daughter thinks she knows...she really doesn't know. Everyone has a right to their privacy, even mothers.
Rhoni, agree. My husband can log into my e-mail anytime and likewise, as well as the forum I'm on. We have nothing to hide. I respect my children privacy do not have access to their.
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