“My experiences with women are huge. I see myself as a professor as far as women and their psychology are concerned. There is no type of woman I have not handled,” he added.puritan lad wrote:Of course, if this divorce and remarriage does become an issue, you can always become a Muslim. Check this out
Man, 68, marries 201 times
That ignorant man simply doesn't know what he doesn't know!
I hear so many stories from Christian women who are doing their part of the deal, following Biblical principles in their marriage, and suffering because it is so one sided. In the ideal marriage, the husband loves his wife as Christ loves the Church and will put her first, sacrifice himself for her. So often it doesn't happen that way, the husband enjoying the wife's submission in love but not reciprocating. However, I have also seen it working both ways and those are relationships that are truly beautiful.
Having read the various passages concerning marriage in the NT, I can remember nothing that prevents an abused wife from reporting the abuse to whoever may help her best, including law enforcement agencies such as police. Without the husband being held accountable for his actions, it is madness for someone who is suffering such abuse to be sent back into the relationship without certain changes having occurred. And a wife with children must not risk the safety of her children either. I believe the advice to return to an abusive husband without any accountability applied successfully to the husband is plain naive and very wrong. Yes, ideally the husband will change his ways given the loving example of the wife, but sometimes hell will freeze over first before that happens. Our love for one another must be responsible and wise, intending the best for the other, concerned and deeply caring. The wife deserves it as much as the husband. The advice I think you got, Michelle, fell far too short to be any of those things and it was just plain wrong.
--Debbie
