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About two years after we married my wife started dropping subtle references about prayer and a story about a friend of a friend of a friend that fell off a balcony and died. However this person was pushed to her death by the devil and as she did not pray or go to church is went straight to hell. She also added that now that she is in hell, no amount of prayers for her will send her to heaven i.e. if you do not pray (a lot) you go straight to hell and no amount of prayers for the person after does anything.

I asked who told her this but she refused to say and to this day I have no idea who this person was who started my wife on this born again Christian road of hers.

We have two children aged 5 and 3 now and they are very normal and happy children however religion is number one and she speaks and mentions Jesus and God at every opportunity. I feel it is affecting the 5 year old. He knows I do not like his mother's strong views. She spends a lot of time with them alone and I have NO idea what she is doing with them but I feel religion is a big part of it, Bible stories, saints, death, the devil etc.

She must buy an average 4-5 religious books / material each month. She has multiple bibles and at one stage had 12 religious children books / children's bibles in our children's bedroom.

Personally, before all this I had a normal relationship and opinions about religion and the church like 60% of the population. Never thought much about it went to church infrequently but had no problem with the church. Looking at what it has done to her my views have obviously changed.

My wife has also stopped wearing jeans, pants or trousers and only long below the knee (nun style) skirts. All her nice dresses and shoes were given away. She wears a head covering in mass (the only person in the whole congregation) apart from her twin sister who unfortunately has gone down the same road. The very same road, could even be more extreme with her I don't know because I prefer to have as little as possible contact with her as possible.

Added to all this. My wife (& twin and their mother) have also become a conspiracy theorist. I mean extreme. Every theory you have read about she believes to the most extreme ones.

She does not work and I think she goes to mass every morning. Will only accept the eucharist on the tongue while kneeling. Has thought the children to kneel when entering the church and to kiss statues.

I believe she says the rosary maybe 5 times every day plus read the Bible and other religious material. After the children are in bed - night time is spent with me in the sitting room watching TV and her kneeling beside the bed in the bedroom. She gave up spending normal husband wife time in the evenings I'd say 4/5 years ago.

All the friends we both knew and visited etc are gone. She no longer contacts them and they have been replaced with like minded religious people. I have not met any of them.

She also refuses to tell me what church is goes to with the children only that it is a small church with only a handful of people. I am not allowed to know because a don't love God as she says.

Why has she gone down this road? God is number One.