Read Part One HERE
In this post I continue to share from a story told by teacher and writer Nancy Campbell in her magazine "Above Rubies."
The story is about a couple Connie and Jim with Connie giving the details of their lives together as printed in "Above Rubies." I will follow up her statements with my comments.
Connie: "After Jim had been committing crimes he would come back home. I would receive him and take care of him. No matter what he had done to me, we were still one flesh. He was my first and only husband - a terrible, ungodly, unfaithful husband, but he was still my husband."
My Comment
Jim had broken his marriage vows to Connie by being unfaithful. Their relationship was therefore no longer a one-flesh relationship since many other women had become part of their intimate relationship
(1 Corinthians 6 :16). Once again, Connie was not fulfilling her role as "ezer kenegdo" or as "equal partner" because she was not confronting her husband with the truth about him having broken the marriage covenant between them. It seems she did not understand the seriousness of his sin and what that meant for their lives together. Furthermore, she was not helping their children understand what it means to be in a one-flesh relationship.
Moreover, Nancy Campbell does not make any comments on the situation when she shared this story in her magazine. Thereby, implying that she is in agreement with the way Connie handled her marital relationship.
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