“Study Shows Christianity Makes Men Better Husbands and Fathers (Open)”
This is not my experience in the church. I think if a man is “man enough” to attend services in the first place, he would likely have been a good husband and father anyway. I say this full in the face of my own experience in that as a non-churchgoer I was married but the marriage was non-traditional, this led to divorce after enough years of it and the divorce wasn’t any better for the kids than the horrible marriage was. NOW as a twice a week church-goer I do not feel that I am a better person than I was before, just that I have the discernment to recognize why my marriage failed, why I should do things differently if God blesses me with another wife, why I was wrong and why I should do everything that I can to be a better father to my (almost) grown children.
God teaches us what Fatherhood is all about.
And now that you have that awareness, you don’t think a second marriage would be better?
I saw this researcher on EWTN last week. His presentation was quite interesting. The one my husband liked — that in Christian marriages, men did a lot less housework than they did in secular/ egalitarian marriages.
For me, the Christian message that I am to LOVE my spouse and help him get to heaven vs focus on myself and my own needs — how could that not make me a better wife?