Reflections on Marriage and the Gospel
If you have a good marriage, and if your parents modeled a good marriage for you, BE THANKFUL!! It occurred to me last night that my parents would have been married 42 years today. Instead, they have been divorced for 22. They divorced when I was 13 (although they had been separated a couple times before that), after 20 years of marriage. It seemed crazy that people could be married for that long and then still divorce. My mom was only 20 years old when she got married (my dad 21). I’m sure my dad must have loved her (or at least thought he did) and was filled with those early feelings of rapture and bliss as they dated. I’m sure my mom took joy in planning her wedding (even though she was never big into hair, makeup, clothes, or lavish decor) and had wonderful dreams about what her future would be like. I wonder what the first years of their marriage were like before I was born. It didn’t occur to me till last night that they were married almost 7 full years before I wa...