It is definitely different than how it is now, especially in the media. "Absolutely. I 'm still shocked! I 'm still shocked when I see things on T.V. You know, I think, how embarrassing. If my daughter is sitting by me and we 're watching a movie and there 's something going on sexually, I 'm embarrassed, you know, I 'm watching this with my daughter. It 's just so personal. Sex is so personal. And the language. I cannot believe the language and the commercials, you know? It 's just amazing."
Did you have any expectations of marriage? And did it go the way you wanted it? "No, no, not at all. I really didn 't. My mom and dad had a very unhappy marriage and they divorced after I got married. After I left they got divorced, but they should have …show more content…
We never got divorced. His parents weren 't. It just didn 't happen in our time. My parents got divorced after I was married and his parents never divorced. It was just something I never considered. Then Dr. Phil came into our lives and everything started changing for the good. He stopped drinking.
(Religion)
The thing that really changed my life. That really turned me around, I was twenty, we moved into a neighborhood and the people that lived across the street from me--there were two neightbors, one that lived across from me and the other in a corner--this lady came one morning and she had a bible in her hand. I invited her for a cup of coffee and we were sitting there and she asked me, "Do you go to church? What church do you go to?" And I said, "Oh, I 'm Catholic." I wasn 't Catholic, but I had gone to a Catholic church with a friend, so I said Catholic, but then I said, "No, I 'm really not a Catholic. I 'm a Mormon." I grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of Mormons, so then I said I was a Mormon and she said, "But do you know Jesus Christ personally? Do you have a personal relationship with …show more content…
I said, "What do you mean?" and she said, "Well, if you invite Christ... Do you believe in God?" and I said, "Well, yeah, I believe in God." And she says well, "Jesus is God and if you invite him, pray, ask him to forgive you for your sins, he 'll come into your life and give you strength and guidance and love. He 'll forgive you of your sins." And I thought, boy do I need that, cause I have so many sins. I have such a sin laden life that I didn 't know what to do about it. So I said, "Yeah, I would like that." And she said, "Well, pray with me. Listen to your heart and ask him to forgive you of your sins and he will come into your heart and live in your heart forever." And she gave me some scriptures out of the bible and I just knew immediately what she was saying was true. It confirmed that God really was real and came as a man to reveal himself to us. As Jesus. It changed my life. Changed everything around. It gave me peace. I had a lot of growing to do in the faith, but it did give me a foothold. A real strength that I didn 't have before. I spent fifty years teaching Sunday school. It was the most fun thing I had ever done in my life. And I had to just quit a few years ago, because when I was in my early twenties I was diagnosised with multiple sclerosis and as time went by my body deteriorated. Now I 'm paralyzed from my waist down and I have to be totally cared for by people like your mom for everything. I can 't do anything
Did you have any expectations of marriage? And did it go the way you wanted it? "No, no, not at all. I really didn 't. My mom and dad had a very unhappy marriage and they divorced after I got married. After I left they got divorced, but they should have …show more content…
We never got divorced. His parents weren 't. It just didn 't happen in our time. My parents got divorced after I was married and his parents never divorced. It was just something I never considered. Then Dr. Phil came into our lives and everything started changing for the good. He stopped drinking.
(Religion)
The thing that really changed my life. That really turned me around, I was twenty, we moved into a neighborhood and the people that lived across the street from me--there were two neightbors, one that lived across from me and the other in a corner--this lady came one morning and she had a bible in her hand. I invited her for a cup of coffee and we were sitting there and she asked me, "Do you go to church? What church do you go to?" And I said, "Oh, I 'm Catholic." I wasn 't Catholic, but I had gone to a Catholic church with a friend, so I said Catholic, but then I said, "No, I 'm really not a Catholic. I 'm a Mormon." I grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of Mormons, so then I said I was a Mormon and she said, "But do you know Jesus Christ personally? Do you have a personal relationship with …show more content…
I said, "What do you mean?" and she said, "Well, if you invite Christ... Do you believe in God?" and I said, "Well, yeah, I believe in God." And she says well, "Jesus is God and if you invite him, pray, ask him to forgive you for your sins, he 'll come into your life and give you strength and guidance and love. He 'll forgive you of your sins." And I thought, boy do I need that, cause I have so many sins. I have such a sin laden life that I didn 't know what to do about it. So I said, "Yeah, I would like that." And she said, "Well, pray with me. Listen to your heart and ask him to forgive you of your sins and he will come into your heart and live in your heart forever." And she gave me some scriptures out of the bible and I just knew immediately what she was saying was true. It confirmed that God really was real and came as a man to reveal himself to us. As Jesus. It changed my life. Changed everything around. It gave me peace. I had a lot of growing to do in the faith, but it did give me a foothold. A real strength that I didn 't have before. I spent fifty years teaching Sunday school. It was the most fun thing I had ever done in my life. And I had to just quit a few years ago, because when I was in my early twenties I was diagnosised with multiple sclerosis and as time went by my body deteriorated. Now I 'm paralyzed from my waist down and I have to be totally cared for by people like your mom for everything. I can 't do anything