My parents have been married for nearly 47 years…they have the easy-to-remember wedding date of “6/8/68.” Their strong, loving marriage has truly made all the difference in my life; I cannot imagine what I would be like today had I not had such a wonderful example of Christian marriage and a safe and loving home in which to grow. Maybe that’s why I was moved to tears over an anonymous letter that appeared in the Guardian last year. It was written by a 22-year-old woman to her mother. The subject? The girl was confessing that she knew that her mother had cheated on her father when she was just 12 years old. Her mother never thought she knew, but she did, and in the letter she describes the devastating effects her mother’s infidelity had on her young life…and continues to have on her as an adult.
