What Your Kids Will Learn When You Prioritize Your Marriage

[Michie]

Growing up, I always thought I had a solid family unit. My parents were youth leaders in our small Methodist church and my Dad was a fireman/paramedic in our small town. We were just a normal and faithful family. This is why I was shocked when, as a 19-year-old young woman just beginning to navigate the world, my parents sat me down and told me they were getting a divorce. Those words shook the foundation on which my entire life had been built. It took years for me to process all that had happened, but I did the work so that when I entered into my own marriage, I felt like I brought some kind of wisdom and experience with me. I’ve been married for almost 26 years now and some years were amazing, some years were really tough and some years, quite simply, were a blur. We are now in the season of life where our adult children are discerning their own vocation and it’s my prayer they took more good than bad from witnessing our marriage.

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