Question about fasting during Lent...

MayDay and Moehick... like you've seen, it's all about interpretation and what you know!

But Bedda, I'm still confused. If you follow the fasting that strictly, what were the exceptions you mentioned? And, by making exceptions, doesn't that mean you're doing exactly what you're annoyed at your Dh for doing?

I grew up with the Sunday Exemption also .
I never would have made it through my childhood without it!

I grew up in a very religious and somewaht old school family, and I was taught the Sunday exception. I'm not sure if it's a church thing, or just something they tell kids to help them through it, but really who cares.

if you don't want to have Sunday as an exemption, then don't, if your DH does, then that's fine for him. Religion, and especially lent is a very personal thing. lent is a time of PERSONAL introspection and prayer and fasting, what I do really has nothing to do with what someone else does and it's the same for your DH. Jesus may have fasted for 40 days, and he didn't quit his fast on Sundays, but lent is a time to REMEMBER Jesus' forty days in the desert, not replicate it.

it's a personal decision. The way people were brought up in teir religions is a touchy and personal subject. The things people were brought up with are not easy to let go. So just let DH take his Sundays off, even God rested on Sunday, and you can go on fasting. As many things as you do as a couple, fasting doesn't need to be one of them, and really, by definition it's personal.

Growing up, we looked forward to Sundays so we could be exempt.

Looking back, it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

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Posted by MonkeyLuv

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Posted by bedda26

I do no meat on fridays during lent...and no meat on ash wednesday...with exceptions...LOL

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what do you mean by 'with exceptions'?

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Ooops...I meant to say with no exceptions....sorry, it was a typo.