Reply To: Going off the Derech

EH-The thing is, he’s been holding it inside for so long. I can’t even imagine how he’s been doing it. Yesterday he told me more details, and I never realized how bad it was. He just broke my heart. He’s usually a private person, and he doesn’t really want to talk about it, but like you said, yesterday he just exploded, and it came out. Even though I had good intentions by putting him in this ‘good’ school, and even though my husband says ‘everything is from shamayim’, I feel guilty that I was the shaliach for all his suffering, which has resulted in him pulling away from yiddishkeit. He told me that he’s not religious anymore, and is just going through the motions to ‘make me happy’.