St_Nick:

can your kids go without you?

just a thought

Wordsmith:

Sounds like a not positive place to be...

If it were me, I'd stay away and avoid the negative vibes.  I'd also take some time to examine why it matters to me.  What really matters is what you think of yourself and your own accomplishments...   not what they think. 

If you've climbed the highest mountain and they are disappointed because you've not swum the widest sea...   so what?  Hey, live up to your name.  Focus on the mountain.  Focus on all the things you have accomplished, not on what others imagine you have not.

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have a nice fourth

sometimes it is fake it till u make it time! i just joined a church in april  and i am scared to death sometimes, i have a inferority complex, i think wow these people are so much further along than me! but i have made a bunch of friends, feal at home now and realize that i can fit in if i want to ! i wish i had been one of those people that went from the day i was born, but im not i have been avoiding the one thing i need to grow instead of stagnate, church people r no better than us and they all have thier faults and skelitons just like we do!

You're not alone

ATV-Nancy:

The last time...

Last time I was in church it was around this time of year and their a/c broke. I went alone.

Wordbird:

anxiety and avoidance

Lots of great support here. I hope you really take that in.

Not to be a monkey in the works, but ...isn't it true that if we avoid things that make us horribly anxious, our anxiety gets worse? While if we face them, our anxiety goes down? Just...a thought. From someone who can't make herself ride the metro since hurricane katrina (don't even ASK me what the metro has to do with having been through hurricane katrina...just can't' ride the darn thing...AND...everything I read and everyone I talk to says, "You gotta go RIDE the darn metro.") Otherwise, it's like NOT riding the metro is reinforced.  So at least drive by. Touch the building. Send them a card.