Help me enlighten my wife...

Hmmm, one post, urgent and pressing question, no replies to all the responses. I wonder if you're coming back, if you were actually serious. After all, when I'm experiencing painful personal problems, I know the first place I turn is to creation/evolution discussion boards. If you decide to go forward with your program of saving your wife from ignorance, I recommend investing in a nice, soft couch for the living room. And don't buy her any heavy frying pans for her birthday! --Percy

Oh, oh, how convenient! She's a JW who just happens to have a grandfather who died of blood poisoning after submitting to one of the great bugaboos of the Jehovah's Witnesses, a blood transfusion!You may be a victim of a wild coincidence, but I doubt it. Check into this, I bet the truth isn't anything so simple or even corroborative of her story. If you're determined to peck away at an irrational belief using rationality, then disproving her objections one at a time may be effective, though I doubt it. Speaking for myself, I know facts have absolutely no influence over my own irrational beliefs. Oops, sunrise, gotta go before the change starts...--Percy

I thought all strong marriages were based upon the premise, "Well, he/she has a few flaws, but what the heck, we're in love. After we're married there'll be plenty of time to smooth out the rough edges." Such hope has kept many marriages alive and kicking for decades.My wife and have several issues over which we relentlessly disagree, and over the years we've had great fun with them because neither of us really holds out any hope that we're going to convince the other, but fortunately for us none of the differences concerned potentially life threatening issues. Your wife is an adult and will make her own decisions, and you'll just have to accept that, though I do recommend that you not follow your wife's wishes if you should ever find yourself in the unfortunate position of making medical decisions for her.But what if you have kids? Now things get sticky.--Percy