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Journey – Week Twelve

Because you are very vulnerable right now, it is very important that you guard yourself from unsafe people.

Unsafe people:

• Condemn me or blame me for my husband’s problem.

• Deny or minimize the sin of my spouse.

• Try to “fix” me or “fix” him by suggesting things I should or should not do.

• Give unwanted advice.

• Cannot keep confidences.

• Only stay in relationship with me when I am happy and hopeful. They are too uncomfortable with or embarrassed by grief and anger to allow me to feel negative emotions and to mourn.

• Are arrogant and self-righteous.

• Are unable to see the Holy Spirit at work in me. This would apply both to non-believers and immature believers who walk more in the flesh than in the Spirit.

–Melissa Haas, The Journey: Book One

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