I have a close friend who is born and raised in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. For five years she has been pushing Orthodoxy on me to the point I'm afraid to tell her I'm not sure I want to join.

I'm a catechuman in the Coptic Orthodox Church. But I just saw a post about priests raping girls and getting away with it.

I applied for four jobs. I got turned down for the corporate job but not the other three, which are call center jobs. Is this a good sign?

Hi I applied through Aetna/CVS and heard back from them an invitation to do the assessment. I applied for four jobs and one said "under consideration" then same day changed back to the others as active. Is this a good sign? They said they're reviewing my stuff to see which position fits me the best.

I decided to pray to Mother Mary and I felt like this wind of peace and my body felt warm. I know she's real now but what do you do once you believe in Mother Mary Because i am currently Protestant.

I would appreciate prayer and advice. Does fasting get easier? I'm still a catechuman and I'm going to participate in the Nativity fast for the first time. Please tell me it gets easier lol I am planning my recipes and grocery lists now though. I think that will help me a lot.

Hello everyone, I have been learning about Orthodox Christianity since 2022. This has been a wonderful year as I have become a catechism for the Coptic Orthodox Church and I have found a Church! If you have any advice please let me know!

If I don't take my medications, I obsess over men. At one time, I all my 20s, I would stalk a guy as long as five years. Like now before my meds I don't stalk but I obsessively think about them. But once I take my meds, an hour or two later, I'm fine. Anyone else go through this or understand it?

I want to be a mother really badly..I've decided not to have biological children due to health issues. Which I'm okay with now because adoption has been in my heart since I was a kid.

I am 32, African American and I desire to adopt two African American girls (older, like 5-10 yrs old) through the heart gallery/fostering.

My question is, how do you prepare to adopt? How do you prepare to be a parent? And when do you know it's time?

I have a meeting with someone tomorrow to see how I can bring my credit score up so I can buy a house through the USDA. She's going to help me but it has to be in a house that qualifies in a rural area. The one I found is 25 miles from the city I'm in. Its the cheapest place to live but they don't have much, a Piggly Wiggly, some family owned grocery stores, a few restaurants, less than 2,000 people but staying there would cut my groceries and bills down plus I'll be paying like a 1/4 in mortgage what I'm paying now in rent.

Anyone else ever lived in rural areas like this? What's it like? Do you like it? Obviously I'm highly interested because I'm living on SSI and food stamps, I'm legally disabled. And I'd love to garden, have dogs and be in the quiet. It's just convenient here.

My bf is in a cult called IDMR. We've been together for five months. This is my soulmate. I won't talk to my guy friend anymore because he and I used to like each other well over a year ago now we're best friends. My bf doesn't mind I just feel like I'm cheating on him because I wouldn't like him doing the same and I just want to be a good gf.

With him, he has kept pressuring me to join his classes or at least attend but I tell him I don't want to. But everything time I talk about my spirituality he brings up his classes saying "I thought you were coming to my classes?"

Since then, I'm psychotic, I hear voices calling me a list, cheater and I don't deserve to be here because I'm a cheater....it's heavily distressing me. What should I do???? Please.

Me and my bf met five months ago. I'm excited about joining a Church but for a while he would say, "but I thought you're joining my classes?" He did this like a handful of times and when I would talk about my faith he'd talk about his faith until I snapped and haven't been the same since.

I feel crazy. I told him I'm never joining but I still feel I'm going crazy. I've even stopped being friends with my best friend because he and I used to like each other. My bf is stubborn he was born into this cult. What should I do?

My therapist helped me realize I do much better when on a routine. She said my religion gives me more structure in my day but I need to work on other routines, mainly sleep hygiene.

But I'm so awful at keeping a routine. How do y'all remember to do stuff?

My new psychologist seems to think I may have rapid cycling BP type 2 instead of one because she doesn't think I've ever had a manic episode and come to think of it I have never been told I have just hypomania. I also experience mixed episodes. This would explain so much, and misdiagnosis too. I've never been diagnosed with rapid cycling except told I might be doing it once.

My days are chaotic, like today I'm in a mixed episode, I just want to talk talk talk but I'm so depressed yet happy and excited. I have not been able to get out this mixed episode. Every day I don't know who I'll be or how I'll feel when I wake up. It's very difficult. I'm curious to know what others experience