And you believed him? If he'd see another woman while separated from his wife, why do you assume he'd tell you the truth about breaking with her?
I would have asked him if he had decided that it was over between he and his wife. If he said yes, then I would have talked to him about making it final and stop betraying vows he had made.
If he said no, then I would have told him he was driving a wedge between he and his wife if they ever DID get back together. He would KNOW he cheated on his wife, and it would hang over them like a cloud.
I find that sins are also things that violate human nature, and that a discussion of what wrong behavior does to self-respect, to people you've vowed your life to, to your own self-image as an honest or dishonest person is more effective than talking about the peril to one's soul.
Terror works with children. I don't use it on adults.
You are comparing the illumining with all due objectivity the basic truths of Christian teaching regarding the very real consequences (for this life and the next) of one's actions on the soul to the Terror that is the hallmark of the diabolical?
I think I'm beginning to understand you better.
His wife had already filed for divorce. Their marriage is effectively over, in the legal sense at least. And yes, I believed him. He was telling me the truth.
I would have asked him if he had decided that it was over between he and his wife. If he said yes, then I would have talked to him about making it final and stop betraying vows he had made.
As I mentioned, his wife filed for divorce. He has cut off all contact with the other woman and stopped betraying his vows in that manner.
Let me ask you: Do you think it's good to withold the truth of the gravity of their situations?
So you do think it's a good idea to withold the truth of the gravity of their situations?
I can't believe you said that.