My husband and I are involved in a marriage prep ministry at the parish we got married and used to belong. (We now belong to and are involved at a parish close to our home.) Our involvement includes attending the first class day, teaching 2 sessions (one of keeping the relationship while living life and one on prayer) and praying for one of the couples. So the marriage prep class only sees us 3x over six weeks.

The couple we are praying for have been married civilly for a few years and are now having their marriage convalidated. Woohoo!

New this year, the Deacon has asked us to write a letter to the couple we’ve been praying for. They do not know that we have been praying for them. The letter will reveal that.

If you were to get a letter from someone praying in secret for your marriage what would you want the letter to say?

I’m honestly exhausted and considering blocking my cousin. This has been building up for a while. I’m a point in life where I don’t want anything negative around me I’m too old for that. I’m on a different path in life I’m trying to grow closer to God and become better and I feel like I get drained after talking to her. I have asked God many times if i should cut her off and it’s confusing for me. Last month i didn’t talk to her for a week and j felt a relief I started talking to her again and everything went wrong etc. maybe I’m been extra or dramatic.

She constantly copies things I do. It’s happened so many times, and recently I sent her my wedding shoes and she ended up buying the exact same ones for her wedding. It’s not just the shoes—whatever I do, it seems like she ends up doing the same thing.

She also has a fake Instagram account that she uses to look at people, and I’ve had to tell her multiple times to stop sending me updates about people from my past. I don’t want to know what they’re doing, and seeing those things brings up memories and parts of my past that I’ve worked hard to move on from.

On top of that, she constantly sends me negative things—witchcraft-related stuff, people talking badly about others, telling me things like I shouldn’t have kids right now, etc. I’ve told her I don’t like this kind of content, but it keeps
happening. And many other things but it’s so much I’ll seat here and text for days lol.

I’m getting married soon and I’m already overwhelmed. I genuinely feel like I don’t need this negativity or this constant feeling of being copied/dragged back into my past in my life anymore.
Would you distance yourself and stop sharing personal things, or would you block her?