A Couple's Way Forward, Maybe?

"Noel and i both knew, we came to a point where we knew we needed to have others to counsel us," she says. "We wanted some friends to encourage us, pray for us...where we could unburden ourselves ... yet not naively as though everything is her fault or his fault" She adds: "Part of what she is experiencing in her husband's harshness is owing to sin,. part owing to sin, and part of it is probably owing to the inherited genetic tendencies imbedded in his own basic personality."