Michele Colon Ruined Our Marriage Pt. 4
In Part 3 of this series, we learned how Michele became intolerant to the fact that her former husband wanted to remain a member of the World Mission Society Church of God while Michele wanted to leave.
In this part of the series, we will learn how Michele began a campaign, which even included deception, to try to get him to leave the Church. This behavior made living with Michele unbearable. Let us continue learning Michele Colon’s former husband’s story.
As the frequency of arguments between Michele and I increased, I even felt like never going back to my own home. I felt better staying at Church. When I was home, I would rather study the Bible to avoid entering into another heated argument with Michele. I felt this was more constructive and enjoyable way to spend my time.
Michele became very mean and spiteful. She would constantly send me information from online articles that argue against the beliefs of the Church, or claim things about the Church and its practices that I know–from first-hand knowledge–were completely untrue.
I finally decided to move out because I knew the situation was not healthy for either of us. After some time apart, I spoke with Michele and agreed to move back home. I invited her to come back to the Church by studying or keeping service from time to time, but I never pressured her. My hope was that if she gave it a chance and kept an open mind, she would find joy in it as she used to, as I had, or at least she would come to better understand why I chose to remain a member of the Church.
Michele decided to come back to the Church and repeat all of the studies again. She would even come and keep service on the Sabbath. But things were not getting any better. Even during this time when she was “trying” to give the Church a second chance, she continued making every imaginable effort to get me to leave the Church.
By Michele’s suggestion, and in my effort to show my wife that I loved her, we decided to see an independent marriage counselor. As soon as he began counseling us, I felt Michele and the counselor had already designed a plan on how they would get me to agree with them on what they felt was best for me. There was even a point in the counseling session that they would speak to each other as if I was not even in the room.
Michele then asked me to see another marriage counselor. Since I wanted to leave the door open to see how we could work out the problems in our relationship, I agreed to go again, even after the awful experience the first time. When we got to the “counseling session,” I saw that this man (who I thought was a marriage counselor) worked from his home. After entering his office, the man proceeded to speak for the next four hours about his experience and personal achievements. Then, for the next two hours, he told me how bad he believed the Church was.
The marriage counselor began to say that the Church was just manipulating me to exploit me financially because that is what the Church thrives on. I asked him frankly, “Fine. Let’s say this Church is all about the money. So what are they doing with all this money? Show evidence of the lavish lifestyles of the leaders? Show me pictures of the mansions the leaders own and the fancy cars the leaders drive?” He had no answer to my questions.
I should have realized before, but believing Michele I tried to hear the man out for all those hours. He even tried to get me to lose all communication with anyone other than my wife. He wanted Michele and I to stay near his house for 3 days with no contact with anyone else on the outside, this was absurd. I left with Michele, extremely angry after realizing that she had deceived me and brought me to a self-proclaimed “cult expert” by the name of Rick Alan Ross. I did some research on the guy afterwards. He had a history of kidnapping people and forcibly deprogramming them.
I felt betrayed by my own wife, and lost a lot of trust in her. I do not understand how Michele could ever claim that the Church caused a divide between us. What caused division between us was her intolerance for my religious belief, and her manipulative methods to get me to renounce my faith.
I know there are couples in the Church whose spouse is not a member and yet they live happy marriages. I don’t understand why we couldn’t do the same.
Michele Colón went as far as lying and deceiving her then husband into an involuntary “cult expert” counseling session. Under these circumstances, who can have a healthy relationship? The more we hear his story, the more we can understand that, contrary to what Ms. Colón wants people to think, she created an unbearable environment for her husband.
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Reading this I really feel for the husband. He really tried to make things work and had so much patience with his wife. At the very least she could have appreciated the fact that he made a lot of effort to save their marriage. She broke his trust in the most disrespectful way. Honestly I feel very bad for Michele. She seems like such an unhappy person. Because she wasn’t fulfilled living as a Christian she needed her husband to follow her same path. She obviously wasn’t satisfied with her decision to leave the church if she needed her husband to do the same to justify her thinking. It just seems so toxic that she spends all her time now slandering the church and her husband. What does she think she’ll gain from all this? If her purpose is to hurt others as she thinks she was hurt how can she ever find true happiness? I hope all who were affected by her actions can read these articles and come to a more realistic understanding.
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Michele creates all these false allegations against the church, but where is the proof and the evidence that it’s true? She doesn’t have any, it’s all made up. She created this whole ordeal but In the end it will only fall on her. Lies and lies and you will never find truth in what she says. I know members who are married to people who are not in the church and they have no problems. From the beginning she didn’t want to be in the church and wanted to drag her ex husband down. She was the problem.
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Did anyone just see that she lied to her husband whom she claims she loved? She lied! But not only that, she deceived the one she claimed to love taking him away from something he’s happy with! That’s not a nice person inside and out. I don’t want to attack Michelle, she blasted herself, but it goes to show, that the rumours of the Church of God are false. The teachings of the Church are to follow the bible. The bible says don’t lie, don’t have deceitful ideas. Everything the Church teaches is good, because God is good. Good is love. In the Church what we aim for is to be made into love (God’s image). Michelle’s ex husband did nothing wrong. Please check out the church of God to actually see for yourself.
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Wow, she really went out of her way to the extreme of manipulating him to go to a “cult expert”. It’s crazy to see that not only did she want to take her ex-husband out of the Church of God, but that she is also manipulating and deceiving even those who haven’t even attended. Though her arguement may seem sympathic, when you really see how helpful the Church of God is and how they truly just want everyone to be united you can see that Michele Colon makes no sense. Her claim against the church is invalid. There are couples in the Church of God whose significant other is not attending and they’re happy just like the ex-husband stated. We shouldn’t let other people’s opinion affect the way you think.
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Wow, what this article reveals about “cult expertise” is chilling. So-called “experts” like Rick Ross have managed to convince the public and their clients that not only is it okay to kidnap and cut off people’s communications in order to force them to change their behavior, but it is even a service worth paying for. That is terrifying. How sickening that what is actually a crime gets passed off as “helping people” while the World Mission Society Church of God is accused of wrongdoing with no evidence whatsoever. I think this story should be front page news so the public can be aware of what is really going on.
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This is crazy, she lied to him and bring him to a guy who has kidnapping history and deprogramming people and tell him to stay with Michele for 3 days and not communicate to anyone? Even just the fact that they lied about Alan being a “marriage counselor” is a crime, and now she make herself a victim and says the church is a cult? The church destroyed her marriage? I am glad she is not a judge, that would be horrible.
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I find it extremely ironic how people can say the Church brainwashes people, uses people for their money and all other nonsense. In actuality, when you look around, it is OTHER churches who tell people what they can and can’t eat, who they should and shouldn’t talk to, and exploits people financially so that their church leaders can live lavishly. They do all this OUTWARDLY and none of the church members bat an eye! How FOOLISH! Yet people thoughtlessly insist that the Church of God is the manipulative one??? It doesn’t make any sense.
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So far there hasn’t been any solid evidence that the Church of God was at fault for their failed marriage. She could have easily accepted his decision to continue being a member but her determination wasn’t to get her marriage to work, it was actually to get him to stop following in the teachings of Christ.
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This almost seems like she was having psychological issues because of the situation. This is just an opinion, but as soon as he found happiness that wasn’t created by her she became jealous and like a switch she changed. It was either her making him happy or nobody, she made everyone a victim of her spite. I think This would have happened even he found the same joy in anything regardless of what it was.
It’s hard to believe otherwise
I hope she can change her ways and find happiness. I also pray that our brother continues to grow stronger in faith with love for our Father and Mother -
The more the truth is being revealed the more I hope people can open their eyes and realize this group that michelle began for no reason it’s only to make herself feel good because we can see it failed with her ex husband. He chose not to be controlled by her verbal manipulative words and actions she was doing bringing him to a so called “marriage counselor” whose background history was a kidnapper. It’s so sad to see how people like michelle and her small group are doing all this just to hurt people’s lives and destroy their happiness. Even when she did go to the church the second time to give it a chance did she really? Her ways and mind were already malicious so she didn’t give any chances to study and understand why her ex husband was happy and comforted by the members of the Church. Just because someone like michelle was unhappy, it doesn’t mean go and start ruining their marriages and breaking up families by making up lies. Happiness is something I always felt being in the Church of God.
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Clearly the one who drove the stake in their marriage was Michele. He was making efforts to work with her to save their marriage, but she was not trying to meet him on the same plane. What if we change the circumstances? Instead of his religious beliefs being the problem, what if the problem was his career. The breaking of trust by her underhanded methods will still be the dividing factor, not his career, religious beliefs, or any other lifestyle choice. It is very sad that the church was being used as scape goat for the problem. In each part I read thus far, the church was helping to facilitate their marriage and encouraging the husband to try and work out their differences.
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Wow. She went through a lot to get her former husband out of the church that she originally brought him into. After doing all this, how can she attack the church and say that the church did anything to ruin her marriage?? Just like brother said, she was the one that caused the division because of her intolerance for her husband’s beliefs and desire to be in church. Who wants to be around someone thats trying to manipulate them into believing in something else??? She was even willing to hand him over to some random crazy guy that is known for kidnapping people and “deprogramming” them. That is insane. No one wants to be around something like that! You can see that her husband, the one thats a faithful member to the church, is the one actually trying to keep the marriage together and trying to make his wife happy. However, the ex-member and slanderer, Michele Colon is the one being deceitful, manipulative and lying for no reason. If she would go these great lengths to manipulate and deceive her own husband, then what about other members who attend the church of God and the public? of course she’s going to do the same and lie about the church to make people be on her side! thats what people with her type of personality do! its so clear. Im so grateful that this brother got the opportunity to tell the other side of the story (the truth) so that people can stop listening to the lies coming from Michele Colon. If you want to know the truth about the Church of God, find out for yourself and not through someone else’s opinion!
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I guess we can truthfully see who is the one doing all the lying and manipulating. It’s ironic that Michele claims to be the “victim” throughout all of this when rather she was aggressively targeting the husband. The real victim is the ex-husband! I feel really bad for him that she went off the deep end with all this and couldn’t just live happily together with him, though have different faiths. I’ve seen many happy couples do this, and even non-member spouses happily participating in family church events and volunteer events from time to time amongst church members and leaders even though they don’t share the same beliefs – that in itself is proof that this is not the husband’s fault, but a result of Michele’s discrimination, bigotry, and religious intolerance. Deception, lies…
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Wow! Seriously?! At the end of it all the Church of God World Mission Society has no part what so ever in the demise of this couple’s marriage. Michele did it to herself. No marriage can last under deception and lies. What did she expect? This article proves something else: “cult experts” cannot be trusted. Firstly, the “profession” doesn’t exist. Secondly, he lied and said he’s a marriage counselor when he’s not, which is dangerous in the field of counseling. How is this “counselor” not in jail?? The girl needs to drop her claims against the church because clearly she ruined her own marriage and is making herself out to be a brain case and a liar.
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This is definitely the most appalling part of the story – Michel Colon could not prove to her ex-husband that his faith was wrong (because all of the teachings in the Church of God are the legitimate teachings of God in the Bible – unaltered / uncorrupted and her ex-husband testifies this is how he felt).
So what does she do? She resorts to the back allies of reputable experts and seeks a “cult experts” (nonexistent/illegitimate title claimed by those that try to “deprogram” believers for a price) .
She takes her then husband to one of these questionable “experts” under the pretense that this person is a marriage counselor.
So I have to ask Michel Colon:
When she spoke to this so-called expert, Did she look them up online, like she researched the Church of God?
Did she try to find more proof that what they advise is real, and that it wouldn’t damage her then husband?
Did she check if their practices are legitimate or true?
Most people know that these people are not to be trusted at all. So…can someone please explain how The Church of God ruined her marriage? Who was trying to brainwash who?
Not only is this sad and stressful for her ex-husband, but it shows that Michel had no respect for her husband’s thoughts or feelings. It seems like Michel Colon didn’t think her husband was smart enough to know what he was doing by his own judgment, nor what kind of faith he was following. What rational human being would continue a relationship like this?
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