When a caller would complain to Dr. Laura about her spouse or about getting a divorce, her response would be something like – the person you hate now is the person you were once so in love with you couldn’t live without. You had babies with this person.
How is it that a couple could be inseparable and so happy one day, and in just a few short years, can’t stand to be in the same room with one another?
This is the havoc of sin. Left to ourselves, we are selfish, demanding, impatient, unforgiving – all those characteristics that does not make for getting along with people.
Left to ourselves, marriage wouldn’t work at all.
I think marriage only works when people look at marriage with a bigger perspective. Marriage is bigger than 2 people in love. It’s bigger than having kids. It’s bigger than buying a house and going on vacations together.
Marriage is sacred. It’s the foundation of every society. Marriage is 2 people willing to put aside their own desires for the family. Marriage is not to get what we want, but to give of ourselves for the sake of the next generation.
Marriage is not for the weak.