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KatowiceCalling   
9 Dec 2008
Life / bed sheets in Poland...are them shorter ? [19]

Another related custom that I find quite strange is that two people sharing a bed always have their own duvet.

I love this idea, though! They overlap as you overlap leading to a kind of romantic mountain duvet.
KatowiceCalling   
9 Dec 2008
Life / Taxpayers subsidise priest's Alfa Romeo in Bielsko Biała [29]

I was walking past a church in Bielsko Biała one Sunday a few weeks ago.

I was amazed to see a well-fed, ruddy-faced priest putting his things in his Alfa Romeo before driving off no doubt for a lovely big lunch.

This priest is known around Bielsko. He blesses companies in return for tax-free wads. He frequents bars in the area. He has a girlfriend. He drives an expensive car. He takes donations from poor people in church and takes his cut.

Hypocrisy aside, his income - as with all priests - is tax-free and consequently is a subsidy from the Polish government paid for by Christian and non-Christian taxpayers alike.

Surely, this is wrong on many levels?! Your pick which.

Takes the piss
KatowiceCalling   
9 Dec 2008
Love / English Husband, Polish Wife... Going out together/not together? [35]

I've never found that's worked with people. Better to try and guide them so they can understand how and why they are being unreasonable. Otherwise it just turns into a heated battle.

Does she go out with her friends? If so, then perhaps you could find out from her what she gets from the experience. Then find out how she would feel if she could no longer enjoy that experience. Then when she explains how she would feel, you can tell her that's how you actually feel.

Did something bad happen in her past with a previous partner? Maybe he told her he was meeting friends when actually he was having an affair. It sounds like insecurity to me. Why else would she want to stop you from seeing your friends?
KatowiceCalling   
9 Dec 2008
Love / English Husband, Polish Wife... Going out together/not together? [35]

Essentially i know its not culture, but something else.

Sad but true by the sounds of it.

It also sounds like you've started to resent the situation and with resentment comes the long, dark road to the shitty end...unless the situation can be turned around, of course!

Re, all men cheating: Have you told her how insulting that is?! Also, what effect does she think statements like that will have on your relationship? They don't really encourage openness and honesty when she's starting from a position of mistrust. If anything, it's a potentially self-fulfilling prophecy. One day she may find herself feeling happy in her despair that all men are the same once you've been continually push away and made to feel like the sins of other men are upon you. Hanged. Sheep. Lamb.

This is a sweeping generalisation but women seem to respond well when things are written down. This is why women love to write letters to their partners. If you can do the same it also means that nothing can be 'mis-heard' and therefore misunderstood or, worse still, twisted. It's safer basically. It also means that you can reinforce the good things about her and your relationship throughout the letter. To a man, a letter seems like the situation can no longer be talked about. To a women, it's not the same.
KatowiceCalling   
9 Dec 2008
Life / Taxpayers subsidise priest's Alfa Romeo in Bielsko Biała [29]

it always bothered me that a priest gives family counciling, even though he has no family of his own

I know! It's crazy. I mean, you wouldn't take advice on living in the rainforest from a desert dweller.

I wonder what kind of a woman would date a priest

A dark-minded woman.

Remember though that priest used to be able to marry but the Church realised the sense in banning it so that all earthly possessions could be passed to the Church rather than to the priest's family.
KatowiceCalling   
9 Dec 2008
Life / Taxpayers subsidise priest's Alfa Romeo in Bielsko Biała [29]

Absolutely! I'd like to see how religions survive without the subsidies.

Churches cost a lot to run. Religions need exposure and therefore churches everywhere. Religions need people to come to these churches regularly so the message can be enforced and reinforced. If they cannot afford to run these churches then what will happen to them? I think we know.

Cheers for the nudge back on track.