My wife was 13 when her parents got a divorce. I didn't know her then...we met in college. But she has told me about it, and about how she felt. She wouldn't want me to go into any detail here, so I won't, but...I don't ever want to put my children through that. Part of her recent bout with post-partum depression has been dealing with issued going all the way back to her parent's divorce.

I have cousins whose parents got divorced when I was 10. The oldest is just a little older than I am, by maybe a few months. That family is so messed up now. They are all rebelling against authority in one way or another.

Like Issachar, I made a decision, before I ever got married, that divorce is simply not an option. Ever. I made this decision on my knees, before God, well before I ever had an inkling that I would one day soon have a wife, and a little baby boy. We have a responsibility to take care of him...but even more important is our responsibility to each other. Love...real love...is not a feeling, not just an emotion, but a decision. And it's hard work to keep loving that person, even through the hard times. But it's worth it.

Gri"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24"shny

ON A LIGHTER NOTE- "It's a shame that so many families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs." --Jack Handy