Related commentaries – Divorce

Divorce And Remarriage – Matthew 5:27 – 5:32

Wife Refuses a Divorce

Tod had left his wife and children for another woman, but Linda, his wife, refused him a divorce. She said that she still loved him and that he could still love her. One morning, after a night of empty sex and not much sleep, he drove to their house and saw his wife through the window getting the breakfast ready and the children off to school-as he said, “doing what she had to do to keep their life, her life, my life intact.” He was overcome with a sense of her commitment to holding together a warm good life. He asked her that day to let him come back, recognizing that she was his very right, and much beloved wife. (Reader’s Digest).