What factors or pressures i.e. societal, locale, family, church etc.. influenced major life decisions?
1. Most of our major life decisions regarding where we lived were primarily influenced by my husband's job opportunities. For many years I simply followed his and his mother's wishes as to which church we attended...which was not always fulfilling for me or our children. Our two families greatly influenced how we did our Christmas holidays, because we always traveled to Nashville to be with all the family beginning Christmas Eve. Our children had Santa at home before we left. I am not sure that we were really wise in doing this because we never established our own traditions with our children. Now that they are grown, this is even harder, although we try not to pressure them
2. When my grandfather heard about my new girlfriend, all he said to me was, “I hear you’re dating a Baptist girl.” I answered with a hesitating “Yes.” He responded with a disapproving grunt. As long as I dated that girl, he would always manage to work something into our conversations on the general topic of “What’s Wrong with the Baptist Church.” He never drew any connection to my girlfriend and never told me I was making a mistake. He just made his comments and let me draw my own conclusions. After I broke up with that girl, I decided to look for girls at the Church of Christ’s Christian Student Center on campus. I didn’t go there in search of spiritual fulfillment or for the quiet devotional times. I went there to look for girls. And I found one. A good Church of Christ girl. My grandfather approved. I married her. That was 39 years ago. She’s still my best friend. Marrying her was the best decision I ever made
3. My life decisions were focused on my spiritual convictions and spending as much time as possible with my wife and our 3 children.
4. Family and church had a huge influence on major decisions.
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