posted June 12, 2017 02:05 PM
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Originally posted by Snow Dragon:
They are getting money.
Laughing! .... Actually, that's not too far from the truth, in my own experience.
My 2nd husband had been a Cappy ~4-1/2yrs older.
Talk about a 'goal orientation'?
During that time of my life, I was all-in FULLY involved with a Pentecostal church. I was extremely popular and well-loved in that mega-church. I was what you'd call a 'platform' person, out in front of 2,000 people, singing on the microphones helping to lead worship services. Was also in the process of completing a year of bible-college, and doing other ~feats!! LOL
We had both belonged to this church for 4 or 5 years.
He 'decided' he wanted me.
When I was kind-of-not accepting his moves, he found 'another way' into my life (via my kids). I guess he was thinking that if my kids liked him, then he had a closer place to my Heart.
ref the Romance?
He send a GIANT HUGE Bouquet of flowers on Valentine's around two weeks after he formally introduced himself--- I did recognize his face in the congregation (since I was up on the platform). I LOVED the flowers.... but with that, he was pushy. I liked the alpha energy part of that? ... I have an exceedingly Romantic nature. But I was involved heavily into my work, then my studies, at that time. His attention was appreciated but I really didn't have the time in my busy schedule, and with being a single mom.
Later on, he told me that when he had shaken hands with me that certain Sunday after a concert we attended that 3rd week of January, he did it with the energetic 'intention' that he was going to 'take me to the altar'.
After I graduated (diploma) the first year bible college, it freed up my time slots. He made his move.... By that August he had captured my full attention.
Since we were older (above 30yo) our friends (and ministers) started considering us to BE a 'couple'... He was a single man. I was a single and a mom with two kids, needing some added support in life. {They put 2 and 2 together.... yada yada.) I was pleasantly overwhelmed by the glitz, the idea, the romance. The validation of my friends 'seeing' us as a couple.
Thing is??? Just before I 'fell for it', I had been thanking GOD for my Singleness. I was satisfied. I was on a good track. My girls were good (although, missing-out having a good male relationship in their life-- their bio-dad/ex1 had completely abandoned them).
What 'flipped' it for me (from being independently single and happy), was that I 'felt guilty' for my daughters NOT having a male role model in their life. And I dissolved my resolve, and subconsciously 'fell' for my own sense of guilt.
I wasn't worried about getting along with him. I could just about adjust to any person, as a 'companion' (and those were 'thoughts' I had, thinking about the girls being grown and having left the home).
I "Believed" what I saw.... and my Heart took the Leap.
I Believed every gesture, every word, every promise, all the Images he presented. I believed he was a True person. That he was telling me the Truth about who and what he represented.
When we got engaged at end of that October, we planned on wedding a year later. Then moved it up to August. Then moved it up to March. Then---- my own Cappy-like business side said 'Hey! I have 10,000 dollar deduction on my taxes that will go for naught, unless I were married by Dec 31. I 'figured' how that would 'pay' for our wedding. How it would be the ideal time to switch the girls' schools (out of state move, to a more rural part of US).
I discussed it with him, practical. Not wasting money-- having the wedding and costs 'paid for' by moving the date up?
We decided to take the plunge.
I did all the wedding plans myself (people were freakin' amazed!! LOL)
It was set for the Day after Christmas.
The church hardly needed decorations, as there were Christmas trees, Beautiful lights and wreaths, and poinsettias all over...
(Which also saved on costs! ? *penny-squeaked?* LOL)
Father-in-law gave gift of honeymoon.
Now...... The closer we were getting to the week of the marriage itself, he was acting soooo fearful. I was immensely engrossed in doing all the final details of the wedding reception, the hall, the caterers, etc.
Workwise, I was also finishing up editing a manuscript for someone (for them to publish), beating a deadline for that TOO!
It was almost an experience of being really super busy and absorb in the details on the outside of me.... and suddenly kinda slo-mo 'seeing' his fear, dealing with my own reactions to it?
I decided to let HIM and his groomsmen 'take responsibility' for HIS fear. I thought it could 'just' be wedding jitters.
Cutting the story to the chase---
I found out ON the Wedding Night--- that I had just married someone who was VERY different than what he had presented. He basically ADMITTED he had lied...
(And we had saved 'sex' for the wedding night--- and he admitted to thinking he was impotent-- which!, I proved him wrong??)
He had hidden some things about his finances. I had TRUSTED him at his word.
It ended up, that I had been what you call 'a trophy'.
When the vows were said, done, and Legal-- I 'found out' (saw under the cover) what I had done with my Decision to give up the track I'd been on, and committed to a 'liar'.
He was a spendthrift. He spent most of his time alone, by himself--- I had WANTED someone I could talk to, be intimate-friend with, SHARE life together.
It was DRY. It was cold, forlorn.
My friends were long-distance from the rural I relo'd to. They 'went away'...
I was left in a place without outside contacts.
The grocery store and shopping was a 45 minute drive.
He ended up being an abusive man.
I remember what a 'coward' I became in front of him.
My daughters had been used to seeing me as a powerful female...
One day, my oldest daughter witnessed a very cruel verbal attack from him towards me. I remember her demanding strong tone at me--- saying, "MOM. DOOOO Something!!!." Meaning, that I should have DEFENDED myself. Gotten into his face, told him off.
He abused me.
The 'ideal' role model I thought he would be, ended up with my daughters NOT only having been abandoned by their bio-dad, but witnessing what little-girls should NEVER be taught about .... they WATCHED 'a coward' rather than the Strong Woman they had known since their birth.
I Failed them.
Things just went downhill.... from that point on.
So.
Yes.... He was looking 'guilty' during the whole Wedding Ceremony.
I found out The Truth, on the wedding night.
My cappy... was actually an abuser.
When I wound up at a women's shelter for safety, he fit the 'profile'... including the way he had gone after my Children in order to gain favor with me.
This DOESN'T mean that YOUR Cappy would be like this man?
If you are 'sensing' the guilt in him... find out WHY.
If you go further and start being too serious about him, HIRE a Detective!!! LOL!!!
I have a Mercury Gem H7 trine my Neptune-rx Libra H10.
I have a Mars Cancer H7gem trine Neptune Libra.
That's a Mercury-Mars conjuction, different elements, trine the Neptune.
I tend to Believe in the Fantasy.
Your words (Merc) and deeds (Mars) get 'Believed' because My HEART totally has FAITH in you....
You'd better be telling me Truth...
I LIVE with a Truthful Soul, and a Spiritual Ideal.
Maybe I should let the Vedics and astrologers choose my partners???? LOL
My HEART has been able to be deceived and broken... too many times.
I BELIEVE,
and I have FAITH....
I've just sucked at having good discernment when Love has touched my Heart.
I HOLD people to their WORD.
I MAKE them Accountable for WHAT they say....
because I LIVE what I Believe in. I say the truth, and I tend to believe that others won't lie to me (especially my closest friends and partners). I LIVE that Ideal IN and with my Heart.
I DESERVE Honest partners... who don't rip me off.
I DESERVE Friends, who TELL me if they 'suspect' the person I'm getting close with.
(After the fact, I had some friends who told me they 'questioned' my cappy's honesty-- to which I told them that they SHOULD have told me this, BEFORE the vows.)
Been financially ripped off, too many times.
I attract Wealth into partnerships. (My Chart DOES THAT, in partnering relationships.)
I need HONEST people who MATCH my level of Integrity, AND Spiritual Ideals.
I deserve people who match and can EARN the Trust I give.
My TRUST has Value.
I deserve to feel Protected.
(music) Early one morning (Nana Mouskouri, Songs of the British Isles, English folk song, 1976; lyrics) [2:34] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIhu990krQ0
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