I had a friend some years back and he and his wife separated. She had been having an affair with another younger man for about 3 months and at the husbands parents place she announced that she was leaving him.
The day she did this was Christmas day.
Some time after their breakup. I dropped my children off at my ex-wife’s home and while I was talking to her she got a phone call.
She motioned me to come over and listen, I thought that it must be a common friend or something, but to my shock it was my friends ex-wife who had left him and their two little children on Christmas day.
What did she want? She was ringing all his and her friends to let them know that they were separated and what a mean man that he was.
My friend had told me that he was very hurt that good friends from the past had snubbed him in the streets, he was wondering why he was losing friends so fast. He couldn’t figure it out, his wife had left him and their two children and yet everyone didn’t want to know him. It was like she was innocent and that he was the bad one, yet he had the two little children that she had walked out on.
What his wife had done on Christmas day was to hurt her husband badly, and devastate the family, and their own two little children, and then using the phone she contacted all their friends to make sure that they would not give him any sympathy and that they would all stay her friend because she had made out that she was the one hard done by.
The terrible part was that his friends (except for a few) had all snubbed him without asking him if it was true what she was telling everyone.
All these people, in this modern age, like sheep, and gullible completely accepted her lies and gossip and never sought any proof or evidence of the lies that she was telling all of them.
I was one of the few (so was my ex-wife) who refused to follow the lies and gossip.
I have found that today many people are just as gullible. They seek excitement and they accept anything, any lies, any gossip from just about anyone to be the truth and there is no need for proof whatsoever.
Please stop and think before someone tells you gossip and don’t be afraid to make it loud and clear to them that you are not going to tolerate that behaviour. Remember that the gossiper is a person who will gossip about others to you, they will also gossip about you to others.
They are vultures of character destruction. They cause harm to peoples lives and maim friendships, and destroy marriages etc. They are trouble. For your own sake, avoid them.
Stop the gossipers in their tracks. It doesn’t matter what “news” that they are spreading, all their work is the work of evil and harm, and they will get their just rewards for their efforts unless they make right all the wrongs that they have done to other people. They need to be humble and apologise, and mean it. God will know.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
9th of February. 2019.