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| I want you to be fully aware of my feelings concerning the marriage covenant into which we are about to enter. I have been taught at my mother�s knee and in harmony with the Word of God that the Marriage Vows are inviolable and that by entry into them I am binding myself absolutely and for life. The idea of estrangement from you through divorce for any reason at all will never at any time be allowed to enter into my thinking. I�m not na�ve about this; on the contrary, I am fully aware of the possibility, unlikely as it now appears, that mutual incompatibility or other unforeseen circumstances could result in extreme mental suffering. If such becomes the case, I am resolved for my part to accept it as the consequence of the commitment I am now making and bear it, if necessary, to the end of our lives. I have loved you dearly as a sweetheart and I will continue to love you as my wife. But over and above that love, I love you with a Christian love that demands I never react in any way toward you that would jeopardize our prospects of entering heaven which is the supreme objective of both of our lives, and I pray that God Himself will make our affection for one another perfect and determined. |
| Dr. James Dobson�s Father�s letter to his bride to be |