Can anyone tell me what the proper practice is for signing a family letter?
I have always signed mine and my husband's name when sending a birthday or thank you card, but feel uncomfortable signing my husband's name to a personal letter that I wrote. I might say, Rodger says hi, or relay a message from him and then sign his name with mine.
If the letter is generic with information about what we have been doing, I have no problem signing both our names. However when I have interjected personal opinions or stories that do not pertain to my husband, in a private letter, I am uncomfortable signing his name too, since he may not have the same opinions.
When I sign both our names on a letter, I feel that the letter with both our names ought to reflect total agreement with what is written.
What do you all think?
Psalm 91:11-16
11 For He will give His angels charge concerning you,
To guard you in all your ways.
12 They will bear you up in their hands,
That you do not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread upon the lion and cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.
14 “Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.
15 “He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.
16 “With a long life I will satisfy him
And [d]let him see My salvation.”
This is what most believers are up against. As we assert our beliefs in Christ, making the decision to obey Christ, we are going to see more family rejection. We are told by many writer, the observation that there is an increase in narcissism in our culture. Most of them are seculars who see what is going on but don't realize that what they are seeing is written in God's Word as well as not really knowing what to do with it.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, [a]haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b]godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."
"Denial is at the root of narcissism, and at the core of the narcissistic family. Any exposure is a threat to the survival of the system, and must be addressed accordingly. ACoNs who raise any concerns about the family's dysfunctions report being ostracised by the whole family, including siblings they thought they were close to. Criticism, or any introspection, is perceived as an attack, and the response of the family is to attribute a fault to whomever makes the criticism. In other words, if you call the family crazy, the whole family will call you crazy back."
sonsofnarcissiticmothers.org: The Narcissistic Family
