Loving through sickness and health is a little more than dealing with diabetes and hypertension or the results of a bad car accident. It also means facing the challenges that we bring to the marriage, that make us all a little sick at the start and being committed to doing the work of healing.
Read MoreSo, whenever I read about Black families and the failure of Black marriage….I wonder who they are talking about. Both our parents marriages lasted. I’ve got plenty friends who have been married as long or longer than us, and some who have remarried after loss. My bridesmaids and childhood friends and college schoolmates and friendships developed later in life are all long-term lovers in marriage.
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