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January 23, 2006
Monday Reader Mail: 71
By QBlog in Reader Mail
I'm no expert on marriage but I'm betting Quixtar is not the best place to go for keeping a marriage alive. After all, it's just a business right?
As always, my comments appear in bold
name: sam p.
date: January 17, 2006
message: You are a man of no integrity.
Because I don't share Sam's affinity for an MLM I have no integrity? That's odd.
This business is the only thing that has kept my marriage alive.
I'm sorry but that's just sad.
I could care less about the money.
Good for Sam. If only Quixtar were filled with people who felt the same way!
You are not a nice man with no conscience.
Grammarians to the rescue!
I will pray for your Heart!! Im sure you will find him some day.
Sam
I'm hoping "him" is God and not some Quixtar-crazed IBO with a grudge.
That's all the Reader Mail this week! Thanks for reading and keep sending in your emails.
Comments
Ah, another quality e-mail from an IBO.
First they demonize you, then say they have the solution to your problem (Quixtar)
do you usually get emails like this Qblog?
Wow...how fun.
I'm glad that Sam doesn't care about money, the Quixtar Marriage Counsling costs a lot of money.
Sam says he doesn't care about the money. So I'm wondering how he was sponsored. "Are you open to looking at other ways to save your marriage?"
{Color me puzzled...}
PW
Oh, no, not another marriage saved by the business! LOL!!
By the way, Eric, I was wondering, how come Xanadustc's SOT blog is not on your sidebar under the 'Recommended Blogs'??
I agree about the marriage thing. If it takes a business that scams you out of all your money to save your marriage, that can only be described as sad.
I bet he ain't told his wife that he could care less about the money!
Sam to his wife: "honey, stick with me! we're going places!" Of course, she didn't know it would be McDonalds.
Stick a candle in the BigMac to make it more romantic.
quick,
I get a few of these each month. The positive compared to negative is about 5 to 1.
Hey Eric,
By 'negative', do you mean negative, as in 'Quixtar-speak' ;-)? Or are you referring to hostile comments?
Hey man. Me and my girl almost got hauled into this Quixtar mess. Thank God (and I do not mean that lightly) we did not get too far. In the hole $135, but hey... my stupidity.
Anyway, my main point for writing on here, is that I was letting you know that I hotlinked to your blog. I find it inspiring. ;) True, mine is nowhere as large as yours... but what can you do?
Keep it up, fight the good fight!!
While there were things that I felt I learned and were better from my time in "the business", my marriage certainly wasn't one of them. My wife thought I wasn't much of a man, and that I didn't care much for my family because I wasn't showing the plan to everyone that was breathing. We were Silvers and had 45-50 people at seminar, but no one was making a profit including us.
My own self esteem suffered greatly as I struggled with my lack of belief myself and in a business that people I admired said was such a good business. I couldn't figure out why I wasn't doing more. It took us two and a half years and thousands of dollars of debt to figure out that it wasn't a good business vehicle to achieve our financial goals.
It took several years for me to recover and my wife to realize what had happened. It's great to be a true team again. It's nice to have my wife believe in me again. It's fantastic to actually make money in a business (too bad I can't say again:).
I shutter to think of myself back in that place of knee deep in "the business", blinders on, and only taking advise from leaders whose marriage advise is, "buy this tape" or "pay money you don't have to go to that function."
Ryan,
Good call, wish I was only down $135 dollars when I got out, it was more like $20K.
Kendall,
I know how you feel, my wife's attitude was very different when we were in the Q. If I was not out contacting in my every waking hour she was on me about it. It is hard for both of us to think back on those days and how we acted.
Its amazing that the pro-side of this argument disintigrates when the REAL LIFE STORIES COME OUT
I am glad that you guys got your lives and marriages back. Ryan be glad that you lost only 135 most people lose a lot more.
When I was in the business, our upline diamond, when showing the plan would always say that one reason for the high divorce rate in the USA was due to financial stress.
Guess what happens to couples when all their money is spent on overpriced products, tapes, books and seminar tickets?
Posted by: Joecool18 | January 23, 2006 6:19 PM