cattitude said:
Good luck, Sleuthy.
You can talk all you want about your "opinions" on relationships, but until you sleep with, eat with, pee with, puke with, laugh with, clean house with and whatever else you do in a real relationship, your opinions ain't worth crap. You cannot fully know a person, how you both will react to life until you LIVE with them.
I agree Catt, you can't know a person until you live with them.
And we pray on this subject daily.
We both want our family to be strong, like a rock.
And we both believe that strength comes from the big Dude upstairs.
I personally pray nightly that I will be a good step-dad and dad, giving our kids the tools they need to grow up and be strong people themselves.
And I also pray nightly that I will be a good husband. And I look to the Bible to give me guidance on how to do that.
What else can I do? If there's a perfect couple out there who will give me an example of something to strive for, then let me know. But I've never met a couple who was perfect. If I am to be a good husband and father, who should be my example? Certainly not my dad. Certainly not any imperfect man I know. I really only have one person to look to for that, and that's the big Dude upstairs.