My husband and I celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary in February and will celebrate 24 years together in June. Our daughter will be 13 in July.
We lived together for 5 years before we got married and actually got married while he was unemployed because of being in the midst of a worker's comp lawsuit. We've been through all kinds of h3ll, but neither of us can imagine trying to go through any of it without each other.
The Good Lord will judge us when the time comes, but I don't believe HE will look all that unfavorably on us, if for nothing else than the fact that our beautiful daughter loves Him and His Word because of the way she is being raised.
I personally find sanctimony a far worse sin than cohabiting.
Then seek comfort without him.
I find it amusing that the boomer generation dumped this garbage on us, and continues to try to justify their bad habits.
You wrote:
“...if for nothing else than the fact that our beautiful daughter loves Him and His Word because of the way she is being raised.”
I believe you are sincere, but here’s the problem: How can you be raising her right if you’re telling her she can have sex before marriage (if she goes by your example)? No where in scripture, or tradition, do you find any support for that. Saying that to you is not sanctimony on our part. It is simply the truth.
“I personally find sanctimony a far worse sin than cohabiting.”
Sexual sins are not the worst sins. Murder, of course, is worse than fornication. But that doesn’t mean fornication isn’t a sin.
It is stunning to me how people who consider themselves Christians routinely deny that sin is sin. Then again: http://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Calls-Anymore-Kenneth-Roberts/dp/0879739150
good for you and I wish you well, I really do and we’re going on 16 years too
thank you for making a post which is from experience and a happy one too, hope you and your family have a good and healthy future.