Marriages DO Last

Well, I just can’t stay off this marriage topic. Not when articles one I just read (and are no longer extant) are written. A pox upon her selfish whining, that all marriage is obsolete because she could not be faithful!! 

Who in the world told this woman that marriage is “the idea of lifelong wedded bliss” that by her divorce “has become obsolete”? 

Why in the world should we listen to someone whose selfish physical desires tossed out her marriage for a roll in another man’s bed? Oh, of course – she had a husband who traveled a lot. That makes it completely understandable, doesn’t it? 

Let’s revisit yesterday’s post for just a moment: Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. (1 Corinthians 7:3-4 KJV) 

It was not her body to give to another. And, again, that non-marriage word shows up in the article: “This was a 20-year partnership.” 

Partnership? Similar to relationship? An on-going friendship? Not for me. 

I have a marriage. We are 48 years into it (updated 5/11/2022 - coming up on 61 years.) For the first thirty years, my Beloved Husband worked fifteen of it out of town, coming home on weekends. Our closest friends are 58 years into theirs. My sister’s ended with the death of her beloved husband. Both sisters-in-law are right behind us with 47 years, each! No brag, just fact. 

Please, look upon us as Titus Two women. Each of the five women above fit:

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. (Titus 2:3-5 KJV) 

My goodness! Is that so hard to do? We’ve stood before our family, our friends, our God and promised to love, honor and obey until death parts us, not a legal decree that attempts to explain why we couldn’t keep our commitment. 

I am so frustrated with the selfishness of those who expect someone else to provide bliss in their lives. Frustrated with those who seek public praise for private sinfulness by tossing their own ethics aside, then denigrating ours. 

Who is this woman to determine how obsolete my marriage is because another man became the focus of her life? She felt guilt, confessed, determined that it couldn’t possibly be her fault - so something was wrong with the system. Do away with the system, and her guilt could be erased. 

There’s something seriously wrong with the logic that says, if it feels good, do it; if it feels wrong, change the rules. How quickly we forget it was important enough to say twice: T

here is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Proverbs 14:12; 16:25 KJV)